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- The experiences and environments of working-class children vary dramatically from their more affluent peers. I update Bronfenbrenner’s (1986) ecological systems theory to account for the technology children interact with and child social class, using Lareau’s (2003) frameworks that establish class differences in parenting practices. I position child technology devices at...
- Keyword:
- technology, occupation, working class, aspirations, home, and children
- Subject:
- Social research and Communication
- Creator:
- Hightower, Brianna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759910 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15212
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- Pablo Escobar is not only part of Colombia’s cruel past but also of its very difficult present. Escobar was one of the first major modern drug traffickers, and the founder and head of the Medellín Cartel. He was responsible for more than four thousand deaths. He had an incalculable fortune...
- Keyword:
- Pablo Escobar, Colombian Newspapers, Persona, Humor, Metaphor, and The War on Drugs
- Subject:
- Journalism, Rhetoric, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Uribe Rincón, Catalina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_761642 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15225
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- Cell-based therapies are an exciting frontier in medicine. This field is built on a simple premise—cells can be engineered to recognize and treat various human diseases. The paradigm of cell-based therapy uses biosensors to interrogate a cell’s environment and distinguish disease from health, intracellular signaling pathways and genetic circuitry to...
- Keyword:
- Cell-based therapy, Synthetic receptors, Synthetic biology, Biosensors, Transcription factors, and Immunotherapy
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Biology, and Medicine
- Creator:
- Donahue, Patrick Sean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15420 and etdadmin_upload_781062
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- This dissertation describes investigations into the two primary mechanisms by which the optical bandgap of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) may be post-synthetically modified: (i) by the quantum-confined Stark effect and (ii) by exciton-delocalizing surface capping ligands. This work demonstrates that through the use of ligand-exchange strategies that enable either of...
- Keyword:
- Quantum dots, ligands, and interfaces
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Westmoreland, Dana Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_748612 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15158
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- Research shows the increasing tendency of political considerations to influence decisions outside the context of politics. This work documents examples of partisan affiliation influencing judgments and behaviors – and often resulting in favoritism or discrimination – in ostensibly nonpolitical contexts such as the workplace, academia, and dating, among others. To...
- Keyword:
- political psychology, polarization, partisanship, and American politics
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Shafranek, Richard M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15356 and etdadmin_upload_774386
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- Basal ganglia are a highly interconnected group of nuclei involved in motor control. The external globus pallidus (GPe) is a critical node within the basal ganglia circuit. While the prevailing basal ganglia circuit model assumes the GPe as merely a relay, phasic changes in the activity of GPe neurons during...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Pamukcu, Arin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_770344 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15325
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- It is said across numerous disciplines, from biology to architecture to software engineering, that “form ever follows function.” This adage highlights the intimate relationship between structural characteristics and functional properties in many disparate fields of work. Here, we discuss how the catalytic activity and compressibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are...
- Keyword:
- Nanoparticle Composite, Metal-Organic Framework, Diamond Anvil Cell, High Pressure, and Acetylene Hydrogenation
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Redfern, Louis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_752781 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15176
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- Sight-singing skills are a key component in empowering choristers to make music independently. Advances in technology have made visual feedback displaying the accuracy of a sight-singing attempt available to singers. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of computerized visual feedback provided by the SmartMusic interface on...
- Keyword:
- technology, sight-singing, vocal sight reading, and feedback
- Subject:
- Music education
- Creator:
- White, Adam Griffith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15406 and etdadmin_upload_780876
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- Deciphering the targets of axonal projections plays a pivotal role in interpreting neuronal function and pathology. Neuronal tracers are indispensable neurobiology tools for elucidating advanced functions and interactions between different subregions of the brain. Commercially available neuronal tracers include small molecule dyes, viruses, and synthetic nanoparticles. Among these options, viral...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Zang, Nanzhi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15029 and etdadmin_upload_723830
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- Multiteam systems (MTSs), or teams of teams, have recently become a standard for collaboration—ranging from traditional office teams to those setting a course for Mars. Although leadership is often identified as a critical lever for effective MTS functioning and success, there is little research to inform the question of how...
- Keyword:
- Leadership, Training, and Multiteam Systems
- Subject:
- Social psychology, Behavioral psychology, and Communication
- Creator:
- Niler, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15188 and etdadmin_upload_755209
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- Description:
- Interpersonal hierarchies are one of the most fundamental structures by which human interactions are organized (Yu & Kilduff, 2019), and dual-strategies theory suggests that humans navigate these hierarchies through the use of dominance (force and coercion) or prestige (display of valued traits to gain respect; Maner & Case, 2016). In...
- Keyword:
- Status, Hierarchy, Power, Prestige, and Dominance
- Subject:
- Management and Psychology
- Creator:
- McClanahan, Kaylene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15279 and etdadmin_upload_764705
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- A variety of human diseases and pregnancy related disorders reflect endometrial dysfunction. However, rodent models do not share fundamental biological processes with the human endometrium, such as cyclic menstruation, and no existing human cell cultures recapitulate the cyclic interactions between endometrial stromal and epithelial compartments necessary for decidualization and implantation....
- Keyword:
- human endometrial organoid, pluripotent stem cells, epithelial-stromal signaling, cyclic hormone response, human endometrial stromal cells, and human decidua
- Subject:
- Biology and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Chu, Virginia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15366 and etdadmin_upload_776955
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- “Queer Correspondence: Form and Femininity in the Long Eighteenth Century” interrogates the role that the epistolary form played in the construction, representation, and discipline of female gender expressions and sexualities across the eighteenth century. Working from the perspectives of queer theory, formal analysis, and literary history, this dissertation argues that...
- Keyword:
- Narrative Form, Epistolary, Eighteenth Century, Queer, Femininity, and Novel
- Subject:
- LGBTQ studies and Literature
- Creator:
- Chaskin, Hannah Molly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15262 and etdadmin_upload_764254
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- Description:
- Given directives such as the UN Global Goals targeting sustainable development, the research presented herein makes but a small contribution to the advancement of alternative energy technologies. Nevertheless, the present work was largely motivated to address specific points of intrigue within the thermoelectrics community. The general principles demonstrated, however, may...
- Keyword:
- Heat Capacity, Thermal Conductivity, Thermoelectric, Thermodynamics, Thermal Expansion, and Phase Transition
- Subject:
- Physics, Materials Science, and Thermodynamics
- Creator:
- Agne, Matthias Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15127 and etdadmin_upload_743939
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- Description:
- Total synthesis of natural products provides an avenue for investigation of complex chemical scaffolds, not only delivering access to biologically impactful molecules but also lending a deeper understanding of their inherent chemical reactivity. Expansion of reaction methodology, optimization of biological activity, and absolute structural confirmation can all be accomplished via...
- Keyword:
- allene, total synthesis, peptide, traceless Petasis reaction, natural product, and organic synthesis
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Rote, Jennifer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15164 and etdadmin_upload_750061
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- In this thesis, we study applications of the theory of perverse sheaves and their enhancements to problems in birational geometry. In the first application, we give positive results towards a conjecture of Batyrev about the nonnegativity of stringy Hodge numbers. In particular, we prove the nonnegativity of $(p,1)$-stringy Hodge numbers...
- Keyword:
- Birational Geomtry, Perverse Sheaves, Hodge Theory, and Hodge Modules
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Olano, Sebastian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763710 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15249
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- Description:
- Cells are often precisely organized into patterns within developing tissues. This precision must emerge from biochemical processes within, and between cells, that are inherently stochastic. I investigated the impact of stochastic gene expression on self-organized pattern formation, focusing on Senseless (Sens), a key target of Wnt and Notch signaling during...
- Keyword:
- gene expression, microRNA, cell fate, Drosophila, self-organization, and noise
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics, Statistics, and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Giri, Ritika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763812 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15251
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- Description:
- The variation of entropy in a family of dynamical systems is a natural indication of the bifurcations that the family undergoes. In the context of one-dimensional dynamics, Milnor's monotonicity of entropy conjecture (now a theorem of Bruin and van Strien) asserts that for polynomial interval maps with real critical points...
- Keyword:
- Moduli space of rational maps, Hyperbolic components, Real rational maps, Topological entropy, Quadratic rational maps, and Monotonicity of entropy
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Filom, Khashayar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15290 and etdadmin_upload_765064
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- Description:
- Phenotypic diversity underlies life as we know it–a variety of species, each with different roles, are essential for a fully functioning ecosystem just as a range of different crops is necessary to provide different nutritional value. Even within a single species, individual variation promotes diversity, allowing for adaptation to new...
- Subject:
- Genetics
- Creator:
- Evans, Kathryn Suzanne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772896 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15342
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- Description:
- Approximately 80-90% of individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) develop motor speech impairments, predominantly in the form of voice dysfunction. It is known that the motor symptoms of PD arise from degeneration of the dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra and dysregulation of basal ganglia motor pathways. It is also...
- Keyword:
- neuroimaging, dysarthria, fMRI, basal ganglia, hypophonia, and Parkinson's disease
- Subject:
- Neurosciences and Communication
- Creator:
- Manes, Jordan Leigh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759611 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15211
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- Description:
- Soft matter is the field of science concerning soft and deformable materials: such as liquids, gels, and foams. Active matter is a sub-field of soft matter that considers systems that contain active agents or particles that consume energy for self-propulsion or to exert mechanical stress on the surrounding system. In...
- Keyword:
- Spinners, Models, Dynamics, Soft Matter, Cell Motility, and Active Matter
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Reeves, Cody Jordan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772543 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15339
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- Description:
- In conventional data federations, a set of data providers each possess an autonomous database and collectively make the union of these databases available for querying by a client from a unified SQL interface. This setting however, provides no guarantees on data privacy or security. With my work, I consider a...
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Bater, Johes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764150 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15258
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- After the Second World War, two states claimed to represent the same nation: “China.” This work examines how the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) competed to represent China and the international consequences of that competition. The CPC’s victory in the Chinese Civil War (1946-1949) led to...
- Keyword:
- Taipei, Kuomintang, United Nations, Beijing, legitimacy, and Communist Party of China
- Subject:
- History, Asian history, and International relations
- Creator:
- Clark, Keith Allan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763206 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15238
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- Description:
- With connected vehicle generated (CVG) information, traffic stream parameters become straightforwardly quantifiable, enabling traffic state characterization and examination over a variety of operational conditions. Since the observation is independent of any spatial restrictions and unaffected by queue buildup and discharge, CVG data offer more comprehensive, more reliable inputs to the...
- Keyword:
- Connected Vehicles, High-Resolution Measures, Trajectory Analytics, Performance Assessment, Traffic Signal System, and Connected Signal
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Ostojic, Marija
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_765215 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15296
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three aspects of health insurance market regulation and design. Chapter 1 (which is joint work with Steve Cicala and Ethan Leiber) studies a regulatory mechanism used to constrain insurer market power. The mechanism targets health insurers' Medical Loss Ratio, which is the share of premiums spent on...
- Keyword:
- Healthcare, Industrial organization, Health insurance, Market design, and Moral hazard
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Marone, Victoria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763445 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15242
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- Description:
- Using social network analysis and legal, regulatory, and policy-based case studies, this dissertation explores the ways information and communication technologies (ICT) are regulated internationally. First, it details the composition of the interorganizational, cross sector network, describing the member and governance bodies active in ICT standard setting organizations (SSOs) and the...
- Keyword:
- Transnational Private Regulation, Technological Standards, International Trade, Information and Communication Technologies, International Economic Law, and International Investment
- Subject:
- International law, Communication, and
- Creator:
- Mills, Ivory Kiara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15390 and etdadmin_upload_780282
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- This dissertation asks how researchers can create more equitable algorithmic systems. Ultimately, this thesis explores methods and implications of representing subjects of analysis in the design and evaluation of algorithmic systems. I also unpack how algorithmic tools measure and quantify human behavior, giving heed to the potential impacts of these...
- Keyword:
- algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction, social discrimination, age discrimination, and algorithmic fairness
- Subject:
- Information science, Social research, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Díaz, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_762101 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15226
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- Description:
- Compromised protein homeostasis underlies accumulation of plaques and tangles in Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, little is known about the early mechanisms that contribute to this process. To objectively assess protein turnover at early stages of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteotoxicity, we used dynamic metabolic labeling with stable isotopes followed by proteomic...
- Keyword:
- Synaptic Vesicles, Alzheimer's Disease, Presynapse, Proteomics, and Protein Degradation
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Hark, Timothy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15385 and etdadmin_upload_780177
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses questions in the fields of household finance and corporate finance. In Chapter 1, I use a quasi-experiment in Norway to examine how households respond to capital taxation. The introduction of a new wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes,...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15210
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- Description:
- In the short amount of time that genetic manipulation has been possible through CRISPR technology, myriad applications have been developed. Results from one of the most promising applications of this technology, pooled screens, have shown that single guide RNAs (sgRNAs), RNA sequences used to target specific regions of the genome,...
- Keyword:
- sgRNA design, CRISPR efficiency, and Machine learning
- Subject:
- Biostatistics, Statistics, and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Zarate, Oscar Alberto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15353 and etdadmin_upload_773909
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- Background: Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is among the most frequently reported adverse events during and following cancer treatment. Between 17% to 75% of chemotherapy-treated cancer patients evidence long-term cognitive deficits as many as 20 years after treatment. The variability in prevalence and the mechanisms of persistent CRCI are not well...
- Keyword:
- mild cognitive impairment, ADNI, Cancer-related cognitive impairment, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Aging
- Subject:
- Oncology, Clinical psychology, and Aging
- Creator:
- Eastman, Jennifer Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_677366 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14756
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a contribution to the depth and breadth of prison media history. I position prison media of the 1970s as key antecedents to the prison reality television of the 2000s and today. The purpose of this arrangement is to bring attention to an era of prison media that...
- Keyword:
- Race, Incarceration, Prison, Gender, Reality television, and Nontheatrical film
- Subject:
- Criminology, Multimedia communications, and Film studies
- Creator:
- Harrington, Catherine Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763170 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15235
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- Description:
- Organic chromophores show great promise for energy and optoelectronic devices, due to their synthetic tunability and low production costs. In order to achieve this potential, their fundamental photophysical processes must be better understood. It has long been documented that chromophore packing at the molecular level has dramatic effect on electronic...
- Keyword:
- Transient Absorption, X-ray scattering, Symmetry-Breaking Charge-Separation, Photoactive nanoparticle, and Self-Assembly
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Powers Riggs, Natalia Elise
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_772355 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15337
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- The philosophical literature on modals is dominated by the following paradigm: modals are modeled as quantifiers over sets of possible worlds. The diversity of modal “fla- vors” (e.g., epistemic, deontic, teleological interpretations of modals) is accommodated within the paradigm by logical mechanisms that allow extralinguistic factors to restrict the quantificational...
- Keyword:
- epistemic modality, deontic modality, context-sensitity, modals, aspect, and semantics
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Skibra, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15323 and etdadmin_upload_770188
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- There is a paradox at the center of twenty-first century American poverty. On the one hand, American poverty seems to have become an object of significant interest (at least to scholars and to the reading public)—as evidenced through the surge of wildly successful non-fiction books about poverty. On the other...
- Keyword:
- Poverty, Precarity, America, Inequality, and Poor
- Subject:
- Economic history, Rhetoric, and American studies
- Creator:
- Olson-Mayes, Liam Carlyle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15376 and etdadmin_upload_779729
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- I analyze a new mechanism through which changes in aggregate income can result in changes in the labor income distribution. This mechanism arises from heterogeneity in the expenditure elasticity of different sectors and in their employment composition. Once total income increases the mechanism suggests that consumption will be re-allocated towards...
- Keyword:
- Income effects, Sector heterogeneity , Labor Income , Macroeconomics , Expenditure Elasticity , and Inequality
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Danieli, Ana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15374 and etdadmin_upload_779688
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- Description:
- Computational imaging (CI) is a class of imaging systems that optimize both the opto-electronic hardware and computing software to achieve task-specific improvements. Machine/deep learning models have proven effective in drawing statistical priors from adequate datasets. Yet when designing computational models for CI problems, physics-based models derived from the image formation...
- Keyword:
- computational imaging, machine learning, event-based vision, and holographic 3D display
- Subject:
- Optics and Computer science
- Creator:
- Wang, Zihao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763327 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15240
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- Description:
- An extensive set of functional electronic properties depends on the electronic structure. These properties are directly connected to the reciprocal-space representation of electronic structure. However, there is a complementary, real-space perspective that is described by combinations of atomic orbitals. Atomic orbitals are the components of electronic structures, analogous to how...
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Dylla, Maxwell Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15203 and etdadmin_upload_758137
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- Description:
- Cyclodextrin-based polymers (CDPs) are adsorbents based on supramolecular receptor chemistry and have emerged as a promising technology for organic micropollutant remediation. Micropollutants are small organic molecules which contaminate water systems from human related activities. The occurrence of micropollutants in water sources is associated with many negative health, economic, and ecological...
- Keyword:
- micropollutants, Purification, polyfluoroalkyl, Water, porous, and Cyclodextrin
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Polymer chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Klemes, Max Justin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15146 and etdadmin_upload_744718
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the study of photoinduced charge transfer between QDs and molecular acceptors as a probe of the defects within ligand shells of QDs and as means to photocatalyze redox reactions. For charge transfer reactions to occur between QDs and molecules in bulk solution, the molecules must interact with...
- Keyword:
- Quantum dots, Photoredox, Photochemical deprotection, Fluorinated ligands, and Surface chemistry
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Perez, Kaitlyn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15131 and etdadmin_upload_743985
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores mid-twentieth century US stand-up comedy recordings and how they elaborate upon definitions of the avant-garde in theatre and performance studies. Weaving theories of comedy, aesthetics, radical performance, and sound studies, I argue for the reconceptualization of the avant-garde as an intellectual impulse outside of the parameters of...
- Keyword:
- belle barth, richard pryor, stand-up comedy, jackie "moms" mabley, voice, and avant-garde
- Subject:
- Creator:
- Russell, Eleanor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_785832 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15430
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- Description:
- Difficulties in prosody (e.g., intonation, volume, rate), turn-taking, and overly formal speech constitute common social communication deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which can significantly hinder social interactions (Paul et al., 2009). Subtle parallel differences in social communication have also been noted in parents of individuals with ASD, suggesting that...
- Keyword:
- broad autism phenotype, autism spectrum disorder, prosody, verbal entrainment, alignment, and neural entrainment
- Subject:
- Speech therapy, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Patel, Shivani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15123 and etdadmin_upload_743898
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the impact of sound on the African literary imagination since the 1970s. I posit the sonority of postcolonial African writing in order to draw out the relatively ignored but remarkably rich stylistic innovations and political interventions oriented around sound. While the orality–textuality debate in African literary studies...
- Keyword:
- African novel, postcolonial literature, sound studies, orality, voice, and Dambudzo Marechera
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, African literature, and African studies
- Creator:
- Newman, Scott Peter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_758547 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15205
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- Description:
- Perhaps because of the influence of the central limit theorem, it is common for scientists to assume distributions in the real world are singly peaked and unimodal. However, many quantities in nature are actually better represented by multimodal distributions. One must provide an explanation for this disconnect between the central...
- Keyword:
- Multimodality, Ecology, Economics, Dynamical Systems, Applied Mathematics, and Coupled Oscillators
- Subject:
- Ecology, Applied mathematics, and Economics
- Creator:
- Johnson, Joseph Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15298 and etdadmin_upload_765238
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we study the connections over principal bundles in dimension four with bounded Yang-Mills energy, and present a new result on the existence a global Coulomb gauge with estimate in optimal space. To be precise, let $A$ be a $W^{1,2}$-connection on a principal $\text{SU}(2)$-bundle $P$ over a smooth...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Wang, Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15190 and etdadmin_upload_755300
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- Description:
- Autonomous trucks (ATs) are envisioned to potentially revolutionize the logistics sector. The integration of autonomous trucks into the overall truck fleet will impact industry regulations and ease driver-related challenges. It also has the potential to improve road safety and reduce carrier costs. There is an extensive body of literature on...
- Keyword:
- Less-than-truckload, Freight, Automation, Daily load planning, Service Network Design, and Autonomous Trucks
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Al Hajj Hassan, Lama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15126 and etdadmin_upload_743927
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- Description:
- This multi-study dissertation explores experiences of music education for students with disabilities with a particular focus on students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is comprised of three distinct papers including two qualitative studies and a literature review. In the first study, I collaborated with Dr. Sarah J. Bartolome to...
- Keyword:
- Students with Disabilities, Music Education, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ethnography, and Multiple Case Study
- Subject:
- Music education
- Creator:
- Draper, Amanda Ruth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_765626 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15304
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- Description:
- Interfacial effects play a critical role in perturbing the properties of polymeric materials. The average properties of polymer materials with substantial specific interfacial area, e.g., ultrathin films, nanorods, and polymer nanocomposites, often deviate significantly from the bulk responses. Much of the past research has focused on systems in which free...
- Keyword:
- Polymer Nanocomposites, Nanoconfinement effects, Interfacial Effects, and Polymer Thin films
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Wei, Tong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_751511 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15170
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- Description:
- Volunteer-based physical crowdsourcing systems connect individuals to make unique contributions to solve local and communal problems and enable new services. A key challenge in enabling such systems is attracting enough willing volunteers who can make useful contributions to achieve desired system goals. While most volunteer-based systems provide volunteers flexibility to...
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Kim, Yongsung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15338 and etdadmin_upload_772442
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- Description:
- A fundamental understanding of the photophysics involved in solar energy capture and conversion is crucial to the development of carbon-neutral energy technologies. Taking inspiration from nature, the photosynthetic reaction center (PSRC) is often modeled by simpler versions of its elements to allow for better control over the system and for...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Coleman, Adam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15363 and etdadmin_upload_776066