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- This dissertation explores the development of public access cable television programming made by and for LGBTQ people in New York City. Through archival research, interviews with the producers of these shows, and analysis of their content and textual features, I argue that LGBTQ public access programming reflected and amplified particular...
- Keyword:
- Affect theory, LGBTQ , Media studies, Television history, and Public access cable television
- Subject:
- History, Sexuality, and Communication
- Creator:
- Herold, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15647 and etdadmin_upload_833354
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- I examine economic design issues in the realm of dynamic organ allocation for transplantation and behavioral market design/contract theory. The second and third chapters focus on two issues in the design of the U.S. deceased-donor organ allocation system, which represents the majority of transplants performed in the U.S. In contrast...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Munoz-Rodriguez, Edwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841815 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15703
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- Description:
- Designing intelligent systems that can answer questions has been an ongoing and active challenge for the artificial intelligence community. In the past, researchers were focused on producing specialized language systems for particular domains and datasets. Such approaches would require deeper-than-ideal amounts of expertise to design, and often necessitated the expensive...
- Keyword:
- Semantic Parsing, Explainability, Analogy, and Question-answering
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence
- Creator:
- Crouse, Maxwell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15615 and etdadmin_upload_828469
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- Description:
- Over the last few years, there has been a transition away from traditional engineering materials to new advanced materials that exhibit complex architectures with improved mechanical properties. Most of the inspiration for these new materials comes from nature, where organisms have evolved an immense variety of macro and nanoscale shapes...
- Keyword:
- Catch bond, Biomimicry, Self-strengthening , Non-bonded interactions, Biomimetic systems, and Synthetic
- Subject:
- Molecular physics, Materials Science, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Dansuk, Kerim Can
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_843657 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15721
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- Description:
- Proteins and many other systems are often conceptualized as networks to access analysis methods from the field of network science. Several approaches use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins to construct networks using correlational statistics. However, in the field of network science, a well-established approach for network construction is solving...
- Keyword:
- Network inference, Siglec-8, FimH, Molecular dynamics simulations, and Protein dynamics
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Liu, Jenny Yongjia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15693 and etdadmin_upload_841212
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- Description:
- Human language processing is incremental. In this dissertation, I explore how an incremental perspective can help us clarify our understanding of transformational syntax, which typically proceeds bottom-up. As part of our exploration, I develop an incremental head-driven parsing algorithm for Minimalist Grammars. The two main innovations of this parsing algorithm...
- Keyword:
- semantics, minimalist grammars, incremental, parsing, movement chains, and syntax
- Subject:
- Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Baumann, Peter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_843180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15711
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- Description:
- In this Thesis, I describe some recent developments in the field of artificial molecular machines to which I have made contributions. In Chapter 1, I survey the rise and promise of molecular nanotopology, a relatively new discipline focusing on molecular knots and links that offers unprecedented opportunities to access high-energy...
- Keyword:
- Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Pump, Mechanically Interlocked Molecules, Polyrotaxane, Artificial Molecular Machines, and Molecular Nanotopology
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Physical chemistry, and Polymer chemistry
- Creator:
- Feng, Yuanning
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15655 and etdadmin_upload_834376
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- Description:
- When a collection of individual units behave synchronously, it is often useful to describe the actions of the group. Broadly speaking in Physics, individuals are described as particles and collective actions are described using waves. However, the dynamic symphony of life ordains that orchestral sections play in harmony for a...
- Keyword:
- Coherence, Vibrational, Quantum Optics, and Electronic
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Zhao, Shawn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_833782 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15651
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- Description:
- Popular and scholarly arguments state that uncivil discourse is bad for democracy because it hampers political trust and sharpens polarization. These same scholars see uncivil discourse as contrary to a good democratic society. However, their arguments could be overstated because incivility may be so contextual that elites can frame certain...
- Keyword:
- participation, perceptions, incivility, and protest
- Subject:
- Political science and Communication
- Creator:
- Gubitz, Samuel Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_825249 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15605
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- Description:
- Knowledge combination is a fundamental component of technological invention, which is a driver of new economic opportunities and firm growth. Yet, evidence suggests that myriad organizational factors, including managers, weigh heavily on the ability of firms to productively use R&D capabilities. This dissertation argues that managerial attention plays an important...
- Keyword:
- Edith Penrose, Managerial Attention, Knowledge Combination, Innovation, and Firm Growth
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Boynton, Dylan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15613 and etdadmin_upload_827988
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- Description:
- Cells are primarily comprised of metal ions, small molecules, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. The ability to probe these molecules in single living cells can shed new light on chemical processes inside of cells or allow disease diagnosis based on molecular profiling. However, there exists a lack of tools that...
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Ebrahimi, Sasha
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_829912 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15624
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric (TE) materials has been drawn broad attention given that it can enable direct conversion between thermal and electrical energies, hence is treated as a vital candidate for clean power generation as well as waste heat recycling. However, the energy conversion efficiency of TE devices used nowadays is still very...
- Keyword:
- Nanostructure, Lead Chalcogenide, Thermoelectric, and Electron Microscopy
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Cai, Songting
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_829997 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15626
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- Description:
- Health literacy has been shown to be a key component of patient understanding of medical diagnoses, adherence, and self-efficacy. Limited health literacy has been associated with a number of negative outcomes— including more severe illness, increased use of emergency services, and mortality. The concept of mental health literacy has arisen...
- Keyword:
- rumination, health literacy, and depression
- Subject:
- Health education, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Slesinger, Noel C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_833405 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15649
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- Description:
- The Escherichia coli ribosome is a molecular machine capable of sequence-defined polymerization of -amino acids into proteins, a feat unmatched by any other current synthetic catalyst. It is complex in its structure, comprised of 3 RNA parts (the 5S, 16S, and 23S ribosomal RNAs) and 54 ribosomal proteins (r-proteins). Efforts...
- Keyword:
- Synthetic Biology, RNA Design, and Ribosome Engineering
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Kim, Do Soon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_831423 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15634
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- Description:
- Sub-wavelength matter’s interaction with far-field light is highly relevant for both fundamental scientific research, as well as many commercial, medical, and defense applications. For example, quantum computation depends on single identical photons produced by quantum dots characterized by far-field sources. Exoplanet detection uses cameras on Earth comprised of micron sized...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Hamilton, Travis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15669 and etdadmin_upload_837670
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- Description:
- Security and robustness are two critical problems in modern computing system. In this disserta- tion, we study these two problems in both hardware system and learning system.Firstly, we discuss the robustness problem in hardware system. Modern microprocessors suffer from significant on-chip variation at the advanced technology nodes. The development of...
- Keyword:
- Federated Learning, Robustness, Security, Noisy Traning, Circuit Sythesis, and Formal Verfication
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Kong, Shuyu N/A
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15770 and etdadmin_upload_845378
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- Description:
- Transplantation is necessary and often the only viable treatment for many forms of end stage organ failure. While advances in immunosuppressive therapies have facilitated largely blocking acute rejection, 5-10 year post-transplant attrition rates have not significantly improved in the past 30 years. The predominant antigen facilitating the alloimmune response is...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Immunology
- Creator:
- Shah, Sahil Vijendra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15715 and etdadmin_upload_843477
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- Description:
- This project addresses the uses of coalition in US political imaginaries throughout the 1930s and 1960s. Throughout this period, public familiarity with “coalition” undergoes a marked transformation: whether deployed as argument, performance, or organizational form. Analysis focuses on three case studies: accounts in the national and Black press of a...
- Keyword:
- Black freedom, Chicago Freedom Movement, coalition, political imagination, New Deal, and March on Washington
- Subject:
- African American studies and Rhetoric
- Creator:
- Molina, David Miguel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845267 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15764
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine the entanglement between female literacy and female sexuality in nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. I investigate the ways in which male authors used literature as a mechanism for policing female sexuality and stabilizing the traditional family. I argue that nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction exhibits a recurring preoccupation with...
- Keyword:
- Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Epistolary, Crime of passion, José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Marriage
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, Women's studies, and Latin American literature
- Creator:
- Vezzani, Cintia Kozonoi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15702 and etdadmin_upload_841735
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- Description:
- Bio-inspired materials have a distinct advantage over other materials by virtue of their mimicry of nature’s own products, which have been subjected to the inimitable tests of time and evolutionary pressure. Here we have taken instruction from natural nanostructures that are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom, namely high-density lipoproteins (HDL)....
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, exosomes, nanoparticles, prostate cancer, and high-density lipoproteins
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Henrich, Stephen E.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15705 and etdadmin_upload_842037
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- Description:
- The prospect of being evaluated by others is oftentimes psychologically crippling. At the core of feeling evaluated is perceiving other minds capable of possessing (judgmental) thoughts and feelings. While research on mind perception in evaluative situations oftentimes examines positive aspects (e.g., increased prosocial behavior), this dissertation looks into how mind...
- Subject:
- Management and Social psychology
- Creator:
- Schweitzer, Shane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_831464 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15637
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- Description:
- Recent developments in deep learning have led to breakthroughs in rendering novel views from sparse input views of a scene.While the accuracy of these algorithms has improved dramatically, it has come at a huge computational cost. While developments in graphics hardware have ameliorated some of the computational burdens, deep learning-based...
- Keyword:
- Augmented Reality, deep learning, novel view, and view synthesis
- Subject:
- Computer engineering and Computer science
- Creator:
- Ghosh, Sushobhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_834671 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15657
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- Description:
- Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) methods are techniques that image a sample by illuminating it with a coherent beam and recording the intensity diffraction pattern produced by the wavefront outgoing from the sample. These are lensless methods that are not limited in resolution by the physical characteristics of an objective lens,...
- Subject:
- Applied physics and Physics
- Creator:
- Kandel, Saugat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15629 and etdadmin_upload_830433
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- Description:
- The demand for low cost, unconventional electronics requires new materials with unique characteristics that the traditionally used silicon-based technologies cannot provide. Metal oxide semiconductors, such has amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO), have made impressive strides as alternatives to amorphous silicon for electronics applications. However, to achieve the full potential...
- Keyword:
- Combustion processing, Thin-film transistor, SANDs, and Metal Oxides
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Stallings, Katie Lynn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844267 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15733
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- Description:
- Soft functional materials are fundamentally interesting from a chemistry standpoint and have exciting applications in robotics, chemical and biomolecule sensing, and biomedical engineering. In addition, soft materials are also useful in lithography, particularly cantilever-free scanning probe lithography (CFSPL). Because of their low modulus, biocompatibility, stimuli responsiveness, malleability, and other characteristics,...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Oh, EunBi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844916 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15750
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- Description:
- In a new analysis of Renaissance pastoral that draws on ecocriticism, queer theory, and a historicist approach, this dissertation finds a green and inhuman world that opposes the modern view that humans differ significantly from, and enjoy a right of dominion over, nonhuman species and the environment. Through readings of...
- Keyword:
- Machiavelli, ecocriticism, Shakespeare, nature, posthumanism, and pastoral
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, Italian literature, and English literature
- Creator:
- Pederson, Alicia Sands
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15618 and etdadmin_upload_829081
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- Description:
- Like many diseases, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is driven by the activity of inflammatory cells. Using molecular imaging to target and analyze populations of inflammatory cells is one promising strategy to non-invasively assess atherosclerosis progression. However, current molecular imaging contrast agents are not suited for such targeted imaging applications. Nanomaterial-based strategies...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Targeted delivery, Nanoparticles, Magnetic resonance imaging, and Drug delivery
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Modak, Mallika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_836754 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15664
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- Description:
- Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline materials composed of metal nodes connected by organic linkers. Due to their high degree of synthetic tunability, MOFs have been considered for a wide range of applications, including many that rely on a change in oxidation state. While most MOFs are generally...
- Keyword:
- Computational screening, Density functional theory, Machine learning, and Metal-organic framework
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Rosen, Andrew Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838355 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15675
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- Description:
- The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the impact that small ensemble free improvisation experiences had on dispositional empathy development when compared with other forms of collective music making; and (2) to examine the relationship between co-performing musicians’ empathy levels and their performance achievement in small ensembles using...
- Keyword:
- Empathy Development, Performance Achievement, Free Improvisation, and Collective Music Making
- Subject:
- Music education
- Creator:
- Schmidt, Casey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15692 and etdadmin_upload_840964
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- Description:
- This dissertation imagines the near future of teamwork, when AI agents will join teams,interacting, collaborating, and completing tasks as a team member. Broadly, I seek to answer the questions: how do humans integrate a new AI teammate onto their team, and how does the AI teammate’s function influence this integration...
- Keyword:
- team, AI teammate, team technology adaptation, and team cognition
- Subject:
- Organizational behavior and Communication
- Creator:
- Larson, Lindsay Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15725 and etdadmin_upload_843833
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the following puzzle: Why have antitrust (competition) laws and policies failed in their mission to prevent concentrations of economic power globally? Corporate monopolization has grown more acute in the last three decades and created serious problems in consumer and worker protection, economic stability, and democratic representation worldwide....
- Keyword:
- Antitrust (competition) laws, Turkey, Economic sociology, Mexico, International political economy, and USA
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Arslan, Melike
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15662 and etdadmin_upload_836066
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- Description:
- We investigated the relationships between trauma, depression, and pelvic pain severity in patients with chronic pelvic pain. Previous research has demonstrated that pelvic pain is associated with trauma history (e.g., physical and sexual abuse). As one potential mechanism of this relationship, trauma may lead to increased susceptibility to pain by...
- Keyword:
- trauma, catastrophizing, chronic pelvic pain, urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes (UCPPS), depression, and pain severity
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Taple, Bayley Jane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15601 and etdadmin_upload_823488
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- Description:
- This thesis studies Bayesian-robustness of algorithm design. The main perspective requires for a single fixed algorithm that its performance is an approximation of the optimal performance when its inputs are independent and identical draws (i.i.d.) from every unknown distribution which is an element of a known, large class of distributions....
- Keyword:
- prior independent algorithms, benchmark design, lower bounds, and mechanism design
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Johnsen, Aleck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15766
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- Description:
- Parasitic nematode infections are common in both humans and livestock populations around the globe. In humans, these infections cause illness which can be debilitating. In livestock, parasitic nematode infections result in poor animal health and wellbeing as well as decreases in the yield of these animals. The decrease in yield...
- Keyword:
- Parasites, Anthelmintics, beta-tubulin, and C. elegans
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Genetics
- Creator:
- Dilks, Clayton Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15713 and etdadmin_upload_843341
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- Description:
- The treatment of AML remains to be a challenge due to the high rates of resistance and relapse experienced by patients after initial therapy. The MAPK-interacting kinases 1 and 2 (MNK1/2) have generated increasing interest as therapeutic targets for AML due to their critical role in malignant hematopoietic transformation via...
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Suarez Palacios, Milagros Melanie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845430 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15772
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- Description:
- Among the most valuable applications of organometallic chemistry is its implementation in the field of catalysis. Many industrial processes rely heavily on catalysis, employing organometallic complexes in the production of commodity chemicals, fine chemicals, materials, and even in the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals. Through decades of intense study, homogeneous...
- Keyword:
- organic synthesis, organolanthanide, catalysis, rare earth, homogeneous, and organocalcium
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Dicken, Rachel Dowrey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_837546 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15667
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- Description:
- The Gram-negative Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is naturally found in water, soil and the plant rhizosphere, and is increasingly recognized as an important opportunistic and nosocomial infection. Despite its rising prevalence and drug resistance, there is little known about S. maltophilia pathogenesis. In this dissertation, I explored two aspects of S. maltophilia...
- Keyword:
- Virulence factors, Siderophore, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Type IV Secretion , and Bacterial competition
- Subject:
- Microbiology
- Creator:
- Nas, Megan Yasemin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841647 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15700
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- Description:
- We prove the uniqueness of equilibrium states for certain potentials satisfying the Bowen property for two flows related to geodesic flows on surfaces with sufficient hyperbolicity. Our first result is the uniqueness of equilibrium states for Hölder continuous potentials and the geometric potential for products of geodesic flows of rank...
- Keyword:
- conjugate points, hyberbolic dynamics, measure of maximal entropy, geodesic flow, equilibrium state, and thermodynamic formalism
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McEnroe, Rachel Maxine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15743 and etdadmin_upload_844617
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- Description:
- Light provides a high-speed and coherent medium for controlling quantum states. In semiconductors, coherent optical effects have been used extensively to lift spin degeneracy on ultrafast timescales and demonstrate high-fidelity control of quantum spin states. Extending this approach to novel pseudospins in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), in this thesis...
- Keyword:
- Polariton, ultrafast optics, exciton, Stark effect, valley, and two-dimensional materials
- Subject:
- Optics, Applied physics, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- LaMountain, Trevor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838864 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15680
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores ways to utilize physical parameters at the nanoscale interface to control the properties of mixed-dimensional heterojunctions (MDHJs). MDHJs combine the desirable properties of different classes of low-dimensional nanomaterials (materials that are quantum confined in at least one dimension). While MDHJs have achieved superlative performance for a variety...
- Keyword:
- photophysics, mixed-dimensional, low-dimensional, time-resolved spectroscopy, and nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Padgaonkar, Suyog
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_827806 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15611
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- Description:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron (MN) degeneration and resulting in progressive paralysis and death. ALS is genetically heterogeneous, disease pathophysiology is not completely understood, and there are no effective drug therapies. To develop broadly applicable therapeutics, we examine disease mechanisms in the...
- Keyword:
- ALS, C9orf72, iPSCs, nucleocytoplasmic transport, NEK1, and microtubules
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Cellular biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Daley, Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15607 and etdadmin_upload_825395
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- Description:
- Superconducting qubits are among the leading competitors in the race towards building the first full-fledged quantum computer. Using this platform, researchers have for the first time demonstrated computational capability that is beyond the reach of the current classical machines. (This achievement is nicknamed "Quantum Supremacy".) Up to date, however, the...
- Keyword:
- Superconducting Qubit, Protected Qubit, Noise Engineering, and Dynamical Sweet Spot
- Subject:
- Physics, Quantum physics, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Huang, Ziwen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15760 and etdadmin_upload_845242
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- Description:
- The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the largest open questions in modern physics despite the many searches for particle dark matter around the world. The search for dark matter particles with masses above 5 GeV/$c^2$ is led by the dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber (LXe-TPC) detector technology which...
- Keyword:
- instrumentation, xenon, dark matter, and backgrounds
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Temples, Dylan Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15665 and etdadmin_upload_836782
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- Description:
- My research goal is to develop first principles frameworks to interrogate multiphase, multiscale systems. One of my main focus areas is to consistently deconstruct highly nonequilibrium problems into their fundamental components. By using analytical, computational and experimental tools to grasp the key levers controlling such phenomenon, I aim to build...
- Keyword:
- Applied Math, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Phase Instability, Statistical Mechanics, and Molecular Dynamics
- Subject:
- Applied physics
- Creator:
- Zhao, Tom
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845599 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15777
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- Description:
- A major distinction among different skeletal muscles in the human body is the number, size, and arrangement of its cells, referred to as a muscle’s architecture. Muscle architecture is indicative of a muscle’s ability to contract and produce force and, like muscle function, is plastic. While neuromuscular plasticity is the...
- Keyword:
- Imaging, Sarcomere, Wrist, Muscle, and In vivo
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Biomechanics
- Creator:
- Adkins, Amy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15688 and etdadmin_upload_840250
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- Description:
- This dissertation asks how can researchers more equitably design sociotechnical interventions to support the information work of sheltered emerging adults. Through two research studies, I explore the technology use in fulfilling the information needs among this population as well as how their environment impacts their strengths and information practices. I...
- Keyword:
- homelessness, strength-based approach, emerging adults, information poverty, and information work
- Subject:
- Information science
- Creator:
- Robinson Smith, Angela Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_829445 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15619
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- Description:
- In an era of personalized medicine, the clinical community has become increasingly focused on understanding diseases at the cellular and molecular level. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging modality for acquiring anatomical and functional information. However, it has limited applications in field of molecular imaging due to low...
- Keyword:
- Molecular imaging, Lanthanide Probe, Magnetic resonance imaging, Contrast agent, and Bioresponsive probe
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Li, Hao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15709 and etdadmin_upload_842693
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- Description:
- Movement is achieved by combining synaptic inputs from various sources and activating motor unit populations. Motor units are the quantal elements of motor control which act as a neuromechanical transducer that converts sensory inputs into motor output. Because of the tight neuromuscular junctions between motoneuron axon terminals and a large...
- Keyword:
- Human Motor Control, EMG, Delta-F, Motor Units, and PICs
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kim, Edward
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824453 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15604
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
- Keyword:
- Liberty, Religion, Hobbes, Theology, Ecclesiology, and Hermeneutics
- Subject:
- History, Philosophy, and Political science
- Creator:
- Day, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15763 and etdadmin_upload_845265
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- Description:
- The BV Laplacian Δ, first introduced by Batalin and Vilkovisky, is a second-order differential operator that appears in the quantum master equation for quantizing gauge theories. The geometric framework for the BV formalism was later recognized by Schwarz as the setting of odd symplectic geometry and Khudaverdian showed that Δ...
- Subject:
- Mathematics and Physics
- Creator:
- Kumar, Nilay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15776