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- Understanding and controlling microbial community assembly is critical to developing novel bioprocesses for nutrient and energy recovery from wastewater and preparing for global climate change. As molecular biology tools and DNA sequencing improve, microbial ecologists can progress from answering qualitative questions about “who is there, and what are they doing?”...
- Keyword:
- metagenomics, microbial electrochemical cells, microbial ecology, activated sludge, and amplicon sequencing
- Subject:
- Environmental engineering and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Grifin, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14462 and etdadmin_upload_626962
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- SAMDI-MS (Self-Assembled Monolayers for MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry) couples the use of chemically-defined self-assembled monolayers of alkane thiolates on gold surfaces with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for rapid characterization of the surfaces. Reactions performed on the surfaces can be quantified directly by detection of the reaction substrates and products. This rapid detection...
- Keyword:
- SAMDI, mass spectrometry, bioassay, chromodomains, cell-free reactions, and microfluidics
- Subject:
- Analytical chemistry, Materials Science, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- O'Kane, Patrick Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14615 and etdadmin_upload_661860
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- Description:
- Epigenetics is the study of chromatin-based events that regulate gene expression without the change of DNA sequence, including DNA methylation, histone modification and chromatin remodeling. Epigenetic regulators are encoded to modify chromatin in a highly regulated and dynamic manner. A growing number of studies have suggested the dysregulation of epigenetic...
- Keyword:
- Biological sciences, Histone methylation, Proteomics, Mass spectrometry, Protein interaction, and Epigenetics
- Subject:
- Analytical chemistry, Molecular biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Huang, Xiaoxiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686355 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14838
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- Description:
- The concept of epistemic infringement marks a novel entry into the social epistemology literature concerning epistemic misconduct. Epistemic infringement constitutively involves the systematic contravention of social and epistemic norms, particularly in a manner that serves to erode epistemic agency. This dissertation identifies epistemic infringement as a useful theoretical tool for...
- Keyword:
- Predatory Grooming, Gaslighting, Epistemic Agency, Collective Epistemology, Epistemic Misconduct, and Propaganda
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Leydon-Hardy, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14687 and etdadmin_upload_663369
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- Description:
- We have a remarkable ability to perform complex, coordinated movements without much conscious effort. In addition to the computations required to generate commands for muscles, a key aspect of coordinated motor control is incorporating sensory feedback about the movement. One of the most important feedback routes is through proprioception, the...
- Keyword:
- musculoskeletal model, somatosensory cortex, reaching, motion tracking, monkey, and cat hindlimb
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Chowdhury, Raeed Hasan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14692 and etdadmin_upload_666011
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- Description:
- Electrostatic interactions mediated by ionic environments play a central role in physical processes across materials science, chemistry and biology. Key biological phenomena, such as the condensation and packaging of DNA, ion transport across cellular membranes and the enzymatic action of proteins, rely on the complex interplay between nanoscale electrostatic, osmotic...
- Subject:
- Physics and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Krishnamoorthy, Kurinji
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14487 and etdadmin_upload_632859
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- Description:
- Standard-based accountability policies have profoundly shaped the landscape of public education in the United States. At the heart of these policies are standardized assessments, administered annually, which are used to evaluate schools and, at times, teachers. While always controversial, opposition to these policies increased following the widespread adoption of the...
- Keyword:
- Education policy, Social Movements, Network Analysis, Econometric Analysis, Accountability, and Framing
- Subject:
- Education policy, Educational sociology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Paquin Morel, Richard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_680128 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14773
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- Description:
- The term blowback originated from the American intelligence community to indicate the unexpected consequences of American foreign policy. In my dissertation, I give an account of how blowback results from these security policies. Blowback shows the cases that security policies create more harm than good to the enacting country due...
- Keyword:
- Script, Unintended Consequences, Ambiguity, Policy Implementation, Security, and Performance
- Subject:
- International relations
- Creator:
- Kang, Hye Yun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14637
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- Description:
- This research especially helps for the design of concrete structures which has to last at least for 100 years such as bridges. The research aims to give a better prediction of long-term deformations of concrete and improve the structure design based on these predictions. The accurate prediction helps in capturing...
- Subject:
- Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Rasoolinejad, Mohammad
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685109 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14804
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- Description:
- Sleep is affected by social relationships and institutions, but much research has studied sleep within an individualized framework. In this dissertation, I analyze sleep in a series of specific social contexts to examine how these contexts shape gender and socioeconomic differences in sleep. Given prior findings suggesting the importance of...
- Keyword:
- employment, sleep, gender, and time use
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Meyer, Jess M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640262 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14539
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- Description:
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of highly modular materials with welldefined three-dimensional architectures, permanent porosity, and diverse chemical functionalities, which show promise for a wide range of applications, including gas storage and separation, drug delivery, chemical sensing, and catalysis. Nanoparticle forms of MOFs have similar properties but are dispersible...
- Keyword:
- DNA, Nanoparticle, Colloidal crystal engineering, Surface functionalization, and Metal-organic framework
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Wang, Shunzhi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14463 and etdadmin_upload_626973
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- Description:
- Colloidal crystal engineering with DNA offers new opportunities for materials scientists to build and program the structures of superlattices beyond what can be accomplished in Nature with atomic crystal lattices. Thus far, such materials primarily have been studied for their optical properties due to the insulating nature of the DNA...
- Keyword:
- Nanoparticles, Self-Assembly, Surface Modification, and Colloidal Crystal Engineering
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Oh, Taegon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14533 and etdadmin_upload_640128
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- Description:
- This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...
- Keyword:
- Sexuality, Gender, Contemporary dance, Performance studies, Senegal, and Germaine Acogny
- Subject:
- Gender studies, Dance, and African studies
- Creator:
- Swanson, Amy Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644
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- Description:
- After stroke, inappropriate muscle activity phasing during the locomotor cycle is a key contributor to locomotor impairment. Muscle phasing has been shown to vary between behaviors post-stroke, but the degree to which individuals can voluntarily modulate activity is unclear. This dissertation consists of a series of three studies that investigate...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Mullens, Christopher Howard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14729 and etdadmin_upload_672305
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- Description:
- Photovoltaic devices containing organic semiconducting chromophores are a promising technology for the conversion of solar energy into electricity. Research into the molecular design and processing of these materials has propelled the power conversion efficiency of laboratory-fabricated organic polymer solar cells (PSCs) to over 17%, which exceeds the 10% threshold deemed...
- Keyword:
- Green Chemistry, Conjugated Copolymers, Organic Semiconductors, Organic Solar Cells, Electron Acceptors, and Photovoltaics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Aldrich, Thomas Jordan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14528 and etdadmin_upload_639853
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- Description:
- Although Jewish studies, sociology, and performance studies texts abound with productive scholarship on Jewish men and their contributions to comedy in the mid-century United States, there is remarkably scant attention devoted to the equally significant contributions of their female counterparts. Nowhere is that bias clearer than the peculiar case of...
- Keyword:
- Assimilation, Jewishness, Gender, Comedy, Stand-up, and Performance
- Subject:
- Judaic studies, Theater history, and American studies
- Creator:
- Overbeke, Grace Kessler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14648
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- Description:
- Due to their widespread use and subsequent release, ENMs may exist as mixtures in the natural environment where their chemical interactions can control the toxic stress to exposed microorganisms. Will complex environmental mixtures containing ENMs produce microbial stress that is synergistic, attenuated, or simply additive relative to single ENM exposure,...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Environment, Titanium dioxide, and silver nanoparticles
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology and Environmental engineering
- Creator:
- Wilke, Carolyn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14434 and etdadmin_upload_624544
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- Description:
- The problem of evil, the difficulty of reconciling the reality of evil with an omnipotent and good God, is one of the central problems in Abrahamic theology. The central liturgical practice of traditional Judaism is the recitation of the Amidah, a prayer that (on weekdays) consists in a series of...
- Keyword:
- Jewish ethics, theodicy, Jewish philosophy, prayer, anti-theodicy, and problem of evil
- Subject:
- Judaic studies, Philosophy of Religion, and Theology
- Creator:
- Ricciardi, Benjamin Cleveland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661202 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14601
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- Description:
- The first two chapters focus on the topic: how efficiently do markets reallocate capital in booms and busts, and what are the effects of policies designed to smooth out fluctuations? I exploit a novel dataset of contracts and projects in the offshore oil and gas industry to examine the role...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Organization, Oil and Gas, and Energy
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Vreugdenhil, Nicholas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661051 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14596
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- Description:
- The epidemic of obesity and associated metabolic diseases have led to increased scrutiny of adipose tissue and its primary cell type, the adipocyte. However, studies show that regional adipose tissue distribution rather than obesity per se is a major determinant of metabolic disease risk. Despite having an obese body mass...
- Keyword:
- Lipogenesis, Insulin Sensitivity, Hypertrophy, Obesity, BCL6, and Adipocyte
- Subject:
- Biology, Endocrinology, and Genetics
- Creator:
- Senagolage, Madhavi Dushyanthi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14575 and etdadmin_upload_658480
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- Description:
- Inter-organelle contacts facilitate communication between organelles and impact fundamental cellular functions. Investigations into the molecular mechanisms of inter-organelle tethering are still in the early stages, and we are just beginning to appreciate the number and variety of inter-organelle tethers that exist. We have used budding yeast as a model polarized...
- Keyword:
- mitochondria and membrane contact sites
- Subject:
- Biology and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Kraft, Lauren Michele
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_626904 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14460
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- Description:
- RNA repair pathways exist in all three domains of life. In eukaryotes, they play key roles in fundamental biological processes such as tRNA splicing and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress induced noncanonical splicing of a master transcription factor mRNA (named XBP1 in mammalian cells). Even though most living organisms contain an...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Unlu, Irem
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14703 and etdadmin_upload_667262
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- Description:
- A fundamental goal in biology is to understand how distinct cell types containing the same genetic information arise from a single stem cell throughout development. Sex determination is a key developmental process that requires a unidirectional commitment of an initially bipotential gonad towards either the male or female fate. This...
- Keyword:
- enhancers, sex reversal, CBX2, chromatin, bivalent chromatin, and sex determination
- Subject:
- Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Garcia-Moreno, Sara A. Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_616325 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14397
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- Description:
- Additive manufacturing (AM) processes have advanced rapidly over the last three decades to the point where they have the potential to fundamentally change the way complex parts will be designed and fabricated in the future. Additive methods leverage the ability to join metal particles or molten droplets in a layer-by-layer...
- Keyword:
- Hydrodynamic, Thermal, Laser Induced Forward Transfer, and Aperture
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Mechanical engineering, and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Zhang, Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_618185 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14414
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- Description:
- Two recent developments in the transportation industry – shared-use mobility services and fully-autonomous vehicles (AVs) – have the potential to fundamentally transform urban mobility. Shared-use mobility services (e.g. Uber, Lyft, Via, Chariot, ZipCar, and Car2go) are already beginning to bridge the gap between personal vehicles and fixed-route transit service in...
- Keyword:
- Dynamic Vehicle Routing, Stochastic Dynamic Control Problem, Mobility-on-Demand, Shared Mobility, and Autonomous Vehicles
- Subject:
- Transportation, Operations research, and Urban planning
- Creator:
- Hyland, Michael Francis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14470 and etdadmin_upload_627240
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- Description:
- Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology is a disruptive transportation development with potentially transformative impacts on society and the economy. CAV systems promise to significantly reduce human-caused road crashes, improve traffic flow performance, and lower pollutant emissions. However, realizing those benefits requires strategic planning for the deployment of CAV systems...
- Keyword:
- Speed Harmonization, Connected and Automated Vehicles, Shockwave Detection, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Elfar, Amr
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14667 and etdadmin_upload_662894
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- Description:
- The heart of computational materials science lies in providing fundamental insights and understanding of materials behavior and properties across different scales. The significance of this task is highlighted by the Materials Genome Initiative and the emergence of computational tools and frameworks such as materials by design, microstructure sensitive design, and...
- Keyword:
- random Process, Multiscale simulation, Microstructure, Gaussian process, and Uncertainty
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Statistics, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Bostanabad, Ramin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14508 and etdadmin_upload_638165
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- Description:
- People pursuing important goals are known to prefer means that are highly instrumental (those most likely to facilitate goal pursuit). The self-handicapping literature demonstrated an important caveat to this principle—that people instead prefer impediments (rather than instrumental means) to their most important, identity-central goals when they anticipate goal failure. Such...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Self-sabotaging, Goals, Instrumentality, and Self-handicapping
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Gamlin, Jessica Erin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14585 and etdadmin_upload_659968
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- Description:
- Valence-to-core (vtc) x-ray emission spectra (XES) provides direct information on occupied valence orbitals and is sensitive to chemical environment. Combining with element specificity and high penetration of hard x-rays, it is emerging as an information-rich technique and its applications have been demonstrated in research fields, such as catalysis and metalloenzymes....
- Keyword:
- laser-pump/x-ray-probe, compound refractive lenses, spin crossover, pink beam, x-ray emission spectroscopy, and valence to core
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Tu, Ming-Feng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662434 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14640
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- Description:
- Recovering three-dimensional (3D) structural information of a specimen from a single two-dimensional (2D) measurement remains an important but challenging task in microscopic imaging. A conventional 2D microscopic image has a shallow depth-of-focus (DoF). Thus, recovering 3D information usually requires sequentially z-scanning the focal planes. This process is time consuming and...
- Keyword:
- Microscopy, Single-shot, Computational imaging, and Optimization
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- He, Kuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_680840 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14776
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- Description:
- Nucleic acids not only are the building blocks of life but also a class of attractive macromolecular therapeutics. However, the delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides into cells has been a major challenge due to their large size and highly negatively charged backbone. Spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) are a class of emerging...
- Keyword:
- Nanomedicine, Gene regulation, and Drug delivery
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Biomedical engineering, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Zhu, Shengshuang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_672179 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14728
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- Description:
- When a cell divides, it must assemble a microtubule-based structure called a spindle, which provides the forces that physically segregate the chromosomes. In most cell types the microtubules that comprise the spindle are nucleated and organized by centriole-containing centrosomes. In many species, however, oocyte meiosis is carried out in the...
- Keyword:
- Kinesin, Cell Division, Spindle, Meiosis, and Microtubule
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Mullen, Timothy James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640242 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14538
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- Description:
- Automated sketch collaborators might help us create more dynamic intelligent tutoring systems, work out designs, reduce bias in solving spatial social problems, and organize our ideas. Here, we examine some properties of sketch recognition methods designed to help serve that goal. Structure Mapping techniques are applied to symbolic structural descriptions...
- Keyword:
- Near-misses, Case-based reasoning, Structure Mapping, Sketch recognition, Analogy, and Support Vector Machines
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence and Computer science
- Creator:
- McLure, Matthew David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14531 and etdadmin_upload_640032
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- Description:
- We use Goerss-Hopkins theory to show that if E is a p-local Landweber exact homology theory of height n and p > n^2 + n + 1, then there exists an equivalence hSpE ≃ hD(E∗E) between homotopy categories of E-local spectra and differential E∗E-comodules, generalizing Bousfield’s and Franke’s results to...
- Keyword:
- Chromatic homotopy theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Pstragowski, Piotr Tadeusz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14702 and etdadmin_upload_667235
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- Description:
- Unlike other products or services, electricity cannot be easily stored, and its delivery cannot be delayed by keeping customers in queues. The electricity supply has to be instantly available to serve a continuously varying demand. Traditionally, electric utilities would match their supply to the demand by adjusting the production output...
- Keyword:
- electricity supply chain, demand response, and operations management
- Subject:
- Management, Environmental economics, and Energy
- Creator:
- DURAN, ASLIGUL SERASU
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_627543 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14477
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- In the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, I find that Aristotle endorses two distinct forms of political activity. The first form, which I term statesman activity, is intrinsically valuable. Aristotle thinks that we should value this kind of political activity because it is constitutive of human well-being. The second form, which...
- Keyword:
- experience, education, political activity, Aristotle, and ethics
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical literature, and Political science
- Creator:
- Cumella, Giuseppe Angelo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14472 and etdadmin_upload_627287
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- Description:
- The apolipoprotein E (APOE) E4 isoform is the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD). While APOE is predominantly expressed by astrocytes in the central nervous system, neuronal expression of APOE is of increasing interest in age-related cognitive impairment, neurological injury, and neurodegeneration. Here we show that endogenous...
- Keyword:
- APOE, Alzheimer, Stem Cells, and CRISPR
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Medicine, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Wadhwani, Anil R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14520 and etdadmin_upload_639542
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- Description:
- Natural Language Processing methods have become increasingly important for a variety of high- and low-level tasks including speech recognition, question answering, and automatic language translation. The state of the art performance of these methods is continuously advancing, but reliance on labeled training data sets often creates an artificial upper bound...
- Keyword:
- Word Embeddings, Natural Language Processing, Polysemy, and Neural Networks
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence and Computer science
- Creator:
- Lucas, Michael Ryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_677765 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14760
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- Description:
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution, non-contact, three-dimensional imaging technique, which has revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of retinal diseases. Visible-light OCT (vis-OCT) extends OCT by enabling retinal oximetry – the measurement of oxygen saturation of hemoglobin from within individual retinal blood vessels. Three advances in the vis-OCT technique...
- Keyword:
- ophthalmology, imaging, blood flow, retina, oxygen saturation, and optical coherence tomography
- Subject:
- Physiology, Ophthalmology, and Optics
- Creator:
- Soetikno, Brian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_625515 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14438
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- Description:
- The blueprint of life is contained within the sequence of an organism’s genome. While virtually all cells of an individual multicellular eukaryotic organism contain a near identical code of nucleic acid sequences, an organism must give rise to and maintain a varied set of cells and phenotypes. As such, sequence...
- Keyword:
- Genome, Epidermal Differentiation, Nuclear Organization, and Transcription
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Genetics, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Garza-Gongora, Arturo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_617313 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14401
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- Description:
- Non-covalent and ion-specific interactions in the context of charged polymers are ubiquitous in nature and in synthetic applications. For example, mussels utilize metal-coordinate bonds to form tough underwater adhesion to a wide range of substrates. The sandcastle worm uses coacervation of oppositely charged polymers to build robust structures for self-defense....
- Keyword:
- Coacervate, Polyelectrolytes, Polymer Mechanics, Quartz Crystal Microbalance, Oil/Water Interface, and Coatings
- Subject:
- Polymer chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Sadman, Kazi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14664 and etdadmin_upload_662829
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- Description:
- Optical interferometers and resonators are commonly used for precision measurement. These devices can accurately measure the phase shifts of light induced by small changes in the optical path in the device. To meet the need for ultra-sensitive measurement, researchers have developed various approaches to build better and more sensitive devices....
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Zhou, Minchuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_633848 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14491
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- Description:
- More than half of proteins in humans are modified with carbohydrates in a process called glycosylation, yet this process remains poorly understood even though approximately 1% of the expressed human genome encodes biosynthetic machinery for glycosylation. Unlike genomics and proteomics where high throughput tools are now routinely used to generate...
- Keyword:
- SAMDI, High-throughput protein synthesis, glycosylation, self-assembled monolayers, glycosyltransferase, and Mass spectrometry
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Analytical chemistry, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Techner, Jose-Marc
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14598 and etdadmin_upload_661107
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- Description:
- Conventional polymer network materials, e.g., rubber tires, cannot be efficiently recycled for high-value applications because of their permanent network structures. Therefore, at the end of use, none or only a small fraction of the economic value can be recovered from these materials. Scrapped tires demonstrate well this issue along with...
- Keyword:
- Reprocessable, Recyclable, Cross-linked polymer network, Adaptable covalent network, Dynamic chemistry, and Polymer
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Li, Lingqiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_675178 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14741
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- Description:
- In the United States there is little material culture that foster youth share in common while in state custody. Removed from alleged circumstances of abuse or neglect, these young people frequently relocate between residential care settings like group homes, institutional treatment centers, or single family foster homes. Due to perpetual...
- Keyword:
- administration, materiality, United States, documents, bureaucracy, and foster care
- Subject:
- Social work
- Creator:
- Stubbs, Matilda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_614326 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14392
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- Description:
- They Left Us Dead: Anti-Black Violence, Black Evidence, and The Insistence of Black Life examines the mercurial, though seemingly fixed, notion of evidence as it is brought into relation with anti-blackness, Black death and, ultimately, Black life. They Left Us Dead queries how and why certain forms of documentation and...
- Keyword:
- Law, Black Life, Evidence, Anti-Blackness, Black Death, and Visual Culture
- Subject:
- African American studies, Law, and Rhetoric
- Creator:
- Ward, LaCharles Travell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14842 and etdadmin_upload_686422
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- Description:
- Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, the United States expanded the scale, funding, and technological sophistication of its defense resources, enabling its current standing as the dominant global military superpower. This dissertation examines the role that the popular narrative genre of science fiction played in shaping American cultural...
- Subject:
- American literature and Gender studies
- Creator:
- Andrews, Erin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14788 and etdadmin_upload_683278
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- Description:
- This dissertation project uses both quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches to examine the dynamics of responsible investing in financial markets. The first chapter investigates how the institutionalization of responsible investing as a business strategy affects category claims made by mutual funds. The study finds that as the divestment movement in...
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Nath, Saheli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14745 and etdadmin_upload_675725
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- Description:
- While microbial competition during infection has most often been examined at the genus or species level [1, 2], the dissertation work described herein asked whether interstrain competition plays an important role in determining which bacterial lineages emerge to cause disease. The goal of this dissertation was to examine the strain...
- Keyword:
- Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pneumonia, Strain Identification, StrainSeq, and Acinetobacter baumannii
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Creator:
- Agard, Mallory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14551 and etdadmin_upload_647535
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- Description:
- Molecular self-assembly is a process in which molecules spontaneously form ordered aggregates, the process of which is important in the natural world, considering those ordered systems and complex architectures contained in a living cell. The goal of chemists is to design simple molecules or chemical systems that can undergo molecular...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, host-guest chemistry, and homophilic recognition
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- gong, xirui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14747 and etdadmin_upload_675818