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- The intersection of sound design and music scoring has been employed expressively in contemporary Mexican cinema to convey complex social commentary. This dissertation investigates how the Mexican films Vuelven, Sin Señas Particulares, and Sanctorum exploit the potentials of the soundtrack to create politicized aesthetic experiences. My research is in dialogue...
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- Film studies, Integrated soundtrack, Aesthetics, Film scoring, The grotesque, Mexican cinema, Mexican history, Sound studies, Cinematic subjectivity, Mixe language, Musicology, Funeral rites, The sublime, Cinematic death, Drug trafficking, Horror cinema, and Immigration politics
- Subject:
- Mexico, Art, Mexican, Documentary-style films, Mexicans--Politics and government, Feature films, Sound, Fantasy films, Horror films, Musicology, Drug traffic, Emigration and immigration--Social aspects, Film festivals, and Music--Philosophy and aesthetics
- Creator:
- Craig Davis Pinson
- Owner:
- Craig Davis Pinson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/15/2022
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Tissue-infiltrating neutrophils (polymorphonuclear neutrophils [PMNs]) are a prominent feature of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer (CRC), where these immune cells can promote cytotoxicity or exacerbate disease outcomes. We recently showed that in acute colon injury, PMNs can increase DNA double-strand break (DSB) burden and promote genomic instability via...
- Keyword:
- Colorectal cancer, DNA repair defects, Tumor angiogenesis, Neutrophils, Genomic instability, and Neutrophil heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Oncology, Pathology, and Immunology
- Creator:
- Bui, Triet M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15896 and etdadmin_upload_872984
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- Description:
- In the United States, allergic disease affects approximately 60 million people and impacts more people every year. While prevalence of allergic disease has steadily increased, there has concurrently been an increase in rates of metabolic syndrome—characterized by increased abdominal girth, decreased sensitivity to insulin, and higher levels of circulating blood...
- Keyword:
- allergy, immunometabolism, homeostasis, hyperglycemia, lung, and metabolism
- Subject:
- Biology, Immunology, and Medicine
- Creator:
- Queener, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824073 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15602
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- Description:
- Facts are not enough! The more recent wave of science communication practices have been advocating for the death of the deficit model of science communication. This model notes that by possessing sufficient information, individuals will change their attitude and behavior to align with scientific facts. However, recent research has shown...
- Keyword:
- Public Engagement, Science Communication, Pop Culture, Narrative Persuasion, Curiosity, and Trust
- Subject:
- Climate change, Science education, and Communication
- Creator:
- Maktoufi, Reyhaneh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15844 and etdadmin_upload_860101
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- Description:
- This paper discusses the role of the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer in Catherine Lamb’s composition Prisma Interius IX. This instrument is a MIDI keyboard that controls a computer program consisting of a bank of resonant band-pass filters, which are tuned to specific frequencies and can be opened or closed to varying...
- Keyword:
- Sound, Electronic Music, Music, Experimental Music, and Composition
- Subject:
- Music and Musical composition
- Creator:
- Jenkins, Noah Fletcher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15893 and etdadmin_upload_872461
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- Description:
- Biomedical imaging is an essential part of medicine that enables the non-invasive observation of biological phenomena. This, in turn, allows for more accurate and earlier diagnoses, monitoring of therapies, and even fundamental research into biological processes. Molecular imaging, a fast-growing subdiscipline of biomedical imaging, seeks to image biochemical processes at...
- Keyword:
- Chemotherapy, Bioresponsive, Gadolinium, MRI, Platinum, and Theranostic
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Adams, Casey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_864932 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15884
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- Otoacoustic emissions are currently used for various clinical purposes; however, stimulus frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) evoked using a single one are not utilized clinically due to uncertainties regarding their generation mechanism, their spatial source(s) in the cochlea, and their susceptibility to various cochlear insults, particularly in humans. Over the years,...
- Subject:
- Audiology
- Creator:
- Akhtar, Uzma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_726455 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15031
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- Sentence comprehension requires both syntactic prediction and working memory processes. Evidence suggests that both are impaired in agrammatic aphasia, and can independently contribute to comprehension breakdowns, but the relationship between them, especially during real-time sentence comprehension remains unclear. Two EEG studies investigated on-line processing of sentences with non-local long-distance dependencies...
- Keyword:
- active dependency formation, Agrammatic comprehension, working memory, integration deficits, Aphasia, and syntactic prediction
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Linguistics, and Speech therapy
- Creator:
- Hsu, Chien-Ju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15891 and etdadmin_upload_870367
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- The commitment of resources to coaching almost always occurs in interaction with other district-wide efforts to improve instruction. Given this probable situation, it’s concerning that the field lacks the ability to provide guidance regarding how coaches might reasonably be integrated within overall plans for the coordination and improvement of instruction....
- Keyword:
- Distributed Practice, Instructional Coaching, Elementary Mathematics, Educational Infrastructure, and School Districts
- Subject:
- Education and Educational leadership
- Creator:
- Stein, Mary Abigail
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15911 and etdadmin_upload_876563
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- Description:
- Emergent phenomena are phenomena that only arise from the bulk collective, not from individual pieces of that collective. The design of materials which host emergent phenomena can be achieved by controlling the interactions between constituent atoms, ions, or electronic spins in a material, and include materials such as permanent magnets...
- Subject:
- Condensed matter physics and Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Collins, Kelsey Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15902 and etdadmin_upload_874733
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- Description:
- Rocky exoplanets are indicated to be common in the galaxy. Future instruments including the {\it James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST), high resolution ground-based spectrographs, and direct imaging missions for under consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics are poised to unlock the atmospheres of habitable zone planets...
- Keyword:
- Planetary atmospheres, Climate modeling, Astrobiology, Habitability, Biosignatures, and Exoplanets
- Subject:
- Astrophysics, Atmospheric sciences, and Planetology
- Creator:
- Chen, Howard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15887 and etdadmin_upload_869081
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- In the adult hippocampus of many mammalian species, populations of newborn dentate granule cells (DGCs) are continuously generated and undergo subsequent activity-dependent neuronal maturation and incorporation into the preexisting hippocampal circuitry. Increasing evidence has demonstrated that these young adult-born DGCs (abDGCs) participate in numerous cognitive and affective processes such as...
- Keyword:
- Neurogenesis, GluK2, GABA, Kainate receptor, and Adult-born granule cell
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Zhu, Yiwen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15903 and etdadmin_upload_874789
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- Description:
- RNA viruses cause a wide range of diseases that range from mild respiratory illness to fatal hemorrhagic fevers. To combat these pathogens, most cells in the human body scan the cell for viruses and activate a potent cell-intrinsic immune response by producing interferon (IFN), a cytokine that amplifies the innate...
- Subject:
- Cellular biology, Molecular biology, and Virology
- Creator:
- Lenoir, Jessica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15886 and etdadmin_upload_866862
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- Part I: Evaluating the relationship between Crosslink Kinetics and Thermodynamics with the hydrogel mechanics. The past two decades have witnessed a surge of applications built upon dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC), both attributed to the scope of developed reactions as well as their modularity.1-3 These reactions have comparable strengths to their...
- Keyword:
- Photoswitch, Rheology, Hydrogels, and Kinetics
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Polymer chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Accardo, Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_873494 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15898
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- Description:
- Dendritic microstructures form during the solidification of a variety of metal parts, from traditionally cast engine blocks to 3D-printed specialty tooling. These dendrites can evolve through growth, coarsening, fragmentation, and the formation of a Columnar-to-Equiaxed Transition (CET), which all can greatly affect material properties. However, the basic science behind these...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Thompson, Zachary
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_876872 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15913
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- Description:
- Market growth is an important goal for consumer businesses, often leading to lower marginal cost, higher operational efficiency, and larger assortment size - all of which help achieve dominance over competition. Yet, retailers and manufacturers alike should carefully manage their supply chains to sustain growth in customer base and extract...
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Glinskiy, Vadim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15922 and etdadmin_upload_878312
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- Description:
- Background: The way in which one perceives their visual world (i.e., bottom-up visual perception) and what one pays attention to in their surroundings (i.e., top-down attention), are critical to uncovering underlying thoughts and cognitions, and impact how one operates in the social world. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a...
- Keyword:
- Local Global Processing, Autism, Broad Autism Phenotype, Endophenotype, Eye tracking, and EEG/ERP
- Subject:
- Psychobiology, Cognitive psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Nayar, Kritika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_898041 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16008
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- Description:
- ABSTRACT This dissertation moves work on school discipline into the digital era by filling a gap in the literature which has largely ignored how data from digital student ecosystems are mined and processed by school authority. My dissertation interrogates the role youth of youth online behavior in school discipline decision-making....
- Keyword:
- Social Media, Digital Discipline, Education Policy, and School Discipline
- Subject:
- Education policy
- Creator:
- Leggero, Meghan Jo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16005 and etdadmin_upload_897755
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- Description:
- This dissertation is the culmination of a four-year project on local governments and local economic activity during the Great Depression in the United States (1929 - 1937). Chapter 1 investigates how U.S. municipal governments coped during the Depression and studies whether debt-induced financial constraints affected local public good provision. Local...
- Keyword:
- municipal bonds, local public good provision, financial distress, and Great Depression
- Subject:
- Economic history and Finance
- Creator:
- Janas, Pawel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16011 and etdadmin_upload_898235
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- Description:
- Since the invitation of ARPANet in 1969, network protocols and communication systems have continued to emerge. Especially in the past decade, the prosperity of mobile internet and cloud computing has resulted in a large number of network protocols and communication systems, which have become critical infrastructure for our society. Availability...
- Keyword:
- Networked Systems, Network Protocols, Serverless Computing, Cellular Networks, and Formal Methods
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Hou, Kaiyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_898314 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16013
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- Description:
- Even though a number of techniques have been developed for motion generation and perception, few of them focus on the computational efficiency and theoretical guarantees at the same time. Typically, improved guarantees come with increased complexity, making theoretically guaranteed methods challenging use in real-time applications. Thus, existing methods usually have...
- Keyword:
- variational integrator, optimization, human pose and shape estimation, pose graph optimization, and SLAM
- Subject:
- Mathematics and Robotics
- Creator:
- Fan, Taosha
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_879523 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15937
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- Description:
- In the first Chapter of this Dissertation, I develop an integrated reasoning model of expectations formation to describe how people learn the effects of novel macroeconomic policies. My model of expectations has two key elements. First, people have a limited ability to understand the general-equilibrium effects of a new policy....
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bianchi Vimercati, Riccardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16016 and etdadmin_upload_898676
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- Description:
- Chapter 1. Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Direction of Scientific Research (with Francesca Truffa) Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Diverse researchers can bring new questions and perspectives, but exposure to diversity may also inspire scientists, regardless of demographic identity, to pursue new topics. This...
- Subject:
- Labor economics
- Creator:
- Wong, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_899059 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16019
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- Description:
- The retina does not act as a simple camera, rather visual information goes through multiple layers of processing before it reaches the brain. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the output neurons of the retina and process visual information in the retina and then project into the brain. There are over...
- Keyword:
- Retinal ganglion cells, Retina, Neuroscience, and Vision
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Wienbar, Sophia Rose
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16017 and etdadmin_upload_898849
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- Description:
- Over the past decade, concepts and expressions derived from Black feminist theory, a line of intellectual thought historically produced from Black women’s unique lived experiences that asks us to consider how one’s material realities are co-constituted by multiple, interlocking systems of the oppressed, have traveled into the public sphere through...
- Keyword:
- Black feminism, Audiences, Entertainment, Popular Culture, and News
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Peterson-Salahuddin, Chelsea Aida
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16018 and etdadmin_upload_898858
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- Description:
- Chapter 1. Undergraduate Gender Diversity and Direction of Scientific Research (with Ashley Wong) Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Diverse researchers can bring new questions and perspectives, but exposure to diversity may also inspire scientists, regardless of demographic identity, to pursue new topics. This...
- Subject:
- Labor economics
- Creator:
- Truffa, Francesca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16020 and etdadmin_upload_899067
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- Description:
- I present concepts and methods for evaluating infrared camera systems. The individual components of camera systems are fairly well understood, but the system is more than the sum of its parts. Many of the usual techniques for measuring individual photodetectors are inapplicable to pixels which are permanently bonded to a...
- Keyword:
- Instrumentation
- Subject:
- Astrophysics and Physics
- Creator:
- Rabinowitz, Jacob
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16022 and etdadmin_upload_899503
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- Description:
- The three essays composing this dissertation are unified by their focus on the macroeconomic aspects of economic development. In Chapter one titled "Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries'', I study the effects of weak land property rights and limited access to finance on aggregate productivity...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Manysheva, Kristina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_899100 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16021
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- Description:
- While the proportion of students from lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds enrolled in higher education continues to increase, rates of upward SES mobility among people from the lower end of the socioeconomic distribution remain extremely low and socioeconomic inequality in the United States continues to rise. The current manuscript examines...
- Keyword:
- Socioeconomic mobility, Downward mobility, Higher education, Socioeconomic status, Resource hoarding, and Opportunity hoarding
- Subject:
- Social psychology
- Creator:
- Hernandez, Ivan Alfonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16025 and etdadmin_upload_899913
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- Description:
- Political stability is fundamental for economic development. Understanding the determinants and consequences of political stability is thus an important topic in development economics and political economy. This dissertation studies how political or economic instability influences economic development and, in turn, how economic factors influence political stability. In Chapter 1, I...
- Keyword:
- economic history, political stability, development economics, and political economy
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Mueller, Joris Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16026 and etdadmin_upload_900014
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- Description:
- Macrophages are innate immune cells that are traditionally thought to be specialists in phagocytosis. More recent evidence suggest that macrophages reside in nearly every organ and readily adapt to local microenvironmental signals, leading to highly plastic phenotypes across and within tissues. Therefore, rather than treating it as a homogenous cell...
- Keyword:
- bioinformatics, macrophage, and NGS
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Biology
- Creator:
- Chen, Shang-Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16027 and etdadmin_upload_900059
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the pricing of jump risk in the cross-section, which builds on understanding the cross-sectional structure of jumps at market jump times, develops nonparametric measures of idiosyncratic jump risk, and investigates its asset pricing implications. Chapter 1 is joint work with Professor Viktor Todorov, in which we study...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Lin, Huidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900076 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16028
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- The first chapter of the dissertation analyzes a moral hazard problem where a firm incentivizes a team of complementary workers in the presence of trust concerns. As we show, when concerned about team members not trusting each other, the firm typically sacrifices statistically-relevant information, compensating some workers based solely on...
- Subject:
- Economic theory
- Creator:
- Camboni, Matteo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16031
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- Description:
- Thermoelectric devices utilize semiconducting n-type and p-type thermoelectric materials to convert heat into electricity. Despite their promise for deep space power generation or waste heat recovery, most high-performing thermoelectric materials reported in literature are absent in practical applications - partially due to inconsistent synthesis and poor mechanical performance. This work...
- Keyword:
- Defects, Phase Equilibrium, Semiconductors, Mechanical Properties, Thermoelectrics, and Doping
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Energy, and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Male, James Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15943 and etdadmin_upload_879755
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- Description:
- All animals purposefully navigate feature-rich environments: while exploring, in search of vital resources of food and water, finding mates, and patrolling and marking habitats. During these complex behaviors, continuous analogue input information from peripheral sensory organs guides discrete and digital sequential motor output; accordingly, each action is informed, modulated, or...
- Keyword:
- Rodent, Ingestive, Prrxl1, Trigeminal, Somatotopy, and Behavior
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Resulaj, Admir
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15946 and etdadmin_upload_879817
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- Description:
- Numerous insights into the sensorimotor systems that guide the control of voice have been garnered by observing how the system responds to manipulations of its auditory feedback. However, current approaches may be limited in the exploration of more complex parameters of volitional and adaptive voice control due to their limited...
- Keyword:
- Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention and Working Memory, Vocal Control, Sensorimotor Neuroscience, Auditory Feedback, and Speech Motor Control
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kim, Jason H
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_882078 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15952
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- Description:
- Urban Air Taxi (UAT) is the use case of passenger-carrying Urban Air Mobility (UAM) at its mature state, and it offers a ubiquitous on-demand (or nearly on-demand) per-seat service that moves passengers in urban or suburban areas using groundbreaking aircraft. However, the absence of a dominant electric vertical take-off and...
- Keyword:
- Urban Air Taxi, Urban Air Mobility (UAM), Air Pooling, Real-time Fleet Operation, and Short Repositioning Elimination
- Subject:
- Transportation and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Ale Ahmad, Haleh Sadat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15931 and etdadmin_upload_879342
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how a nonprofit network orchestrator went through revolutionary change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout data collection, the nonprofit sector grappled with uncertainties about the funding landscape (Batsell, 2020), how to deliver programming when in-person interactions were impossible (Warren, 2020), substantial job losses (Newhouse 2021a; Newhouse...
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Childs, Kaitlyn Margaret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16001 and etdadmin_upload_897092
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters on contract theory. In Chapter 1, ``Agency in Hierarchies: Middle Managers and Performance Evaluations'', I study the optimal joint design of incentives and performance rating scales in a principal-manager-worker hierarchy. The principal wants to motivate the manager and the worker to exert unobservable effort....
- Subject:
- Economic theory and Economics
- Creator:
- Brasiliense de Castro Pires, Henrique
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_897826 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16007
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- Description:
- Regardless of where refugees are hosted, they require political knowledge of rights, restrictions, responsibilities, and the governance actors and processes who decide and uphold these. This knowledge enables refugees to comply with national laws, benefit from rights and protections, avoid rights-based exploitations and harms, and pursue life with dignity in...
- Keyword:
- Urban refugees, Refugee rights, Political knowledge, and Uganda
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Kuntzelman, Christa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16002 and etdadmin_upload_897615
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters on empirical industrial organization. The first chapter explores how a seller uses a public reserve price to signal her private info about the object’s value to the bidder. The second chapter studies how a behavioral consumer preference called “price reference effect” could overturn the...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Guan, Junyan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16009 and etdadmin_upload_898157
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- Description:
- Children acquire linguistic competence via social interactions with adults and learn to converse in accordance with the norms of their communities. The present dissertation examined the communicative patterns of Thai-English bilingual mothers and children in their two languages, as well as compared the bilinguals’ conversations to each of their monolingual...
- Keyword:
- narrative, language development, parent-child interactions, cross-cultural, bilingualism, and cross-linguistic
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology and Communication
- Creator:
- Rochanavibhata, Sirada
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900936 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16044
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- Description:
- Computer systems supported by photonic interconnects and photonic memory devices can reach performance and energy efficiency levels unattainable through purely electronic means across scales, from processor chips to the data center. However, the promised benefits cannot be realized through a simple replacement process; to reach their full potential, several aspects...
- Keyword:
- Emerging optical and photonic technologies, Cache hierarchy, Optical interconnects, Data center network, Network-on-Chip, and Nanophotonics
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Han, Haiyang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901541 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16052
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- Description:
- In a wide range of political systems, political parties and politicians deliver special favors and material benefits to their constituents as a means of mobilizing their support during elections. This phenomenon, called patronage politics, is the focus of this dissertation. Although existing research has uncovered important variations in the patterns...
- Keyword:
- Thailand, Patronage, Comparative Politics, and Clientelism
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Jatusripitak, Napon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16049 and etdadmin_upload_901332
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- Description:
- Racial and economic disparities in education, employment, and wealth continue to pervade modern U.S. society—and American workplaces reflect and reinforce these vast inequalities. In response, organizations spend an estimated $8 billion annually on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Despite these efforts, many DEI initiatives have limited success. My dissertation...
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Birnbaum, Hannah Joelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901595 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16053
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- Description:
- Since its discovery in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), efforts have beenmade to measure and characterize the properties of the Higgs boson. Among these efforts have been searches for rare decays of the Higgs predicted by the standard model (SM) of particle physics. One such decay is the...
- Keyword:
- Higgs, LHC, and CMS
- Subject:
- Particle physics and Physics
- Creator:
- Bueghly, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16051 and etdadmin_upload_901480
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- Description:
- Economic activity is mostly performed by groups of agents that form organizations and collectives. In this dissertation I explore the effects of two frictions, namely conflicting preferences and contracting with externalities, on the characteristics of agents that jointly constitute a given organization or collective. First, in many professional environments workers...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- ESPITIA DE LA HOZ, Andres
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16055 and etdadmin_upload_901777
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three essays that study the operational challenges in healthcare-related fields. We strive to integrate analytical modeling and empirical methods to study decision-making under uncertainty for practice- and data-driven problems. We use large-scale datasets (millions) gathered from years of data collection. To gain access to these proprietary data,...
- Keyword:
- Healthcare, Resource Sharing, and Data-Driven
- Subject:
- Operations research
- Creator:
- Jiang, Yangzi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903140 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16089
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- Description:
- Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis (HSE) is the most common cause of sporadic fatal encephalitis, and despite targeted antiviral therapy, outcomes remain poor. While rare in adults, neonates are significantly more susceptible to severe HSV disease. Understanding both the host and viral factors that contribute to pathogenesis is critical to...
- Keyword:
- Inflammasome, Encephalitis, Herpes, and Neonate
- Subject:
- Virology, Immunology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Hayes, Cooper Kincaid
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903123 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16088
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how theatre makers, activists, and politicians staged performances as a tool for rebuilding Catalan cultural identity and strengthening the Catalan independence movement. Through these performances, many Catalonians have sought to define their identity by invoking a retrospective of abuse and trauma, while presenting a united—albeit simplified and...
- Keyword:
- independence, protests, nationalism, Spain, Catalonia, and Franco
- Subject:
- Theater, Romance literature, and European studies
- Creator:
- Hernàndez-Grande, Alícia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903068 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16086
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- Description:
- We study the complexification of Laplace Eigenfunctions on the Grauert tube of a compact real analytic manifold. Our main results concern scaling asymptotics of Fourier coefficients of the Szego kernel on the Grauert tube boundary in a Heisenberg frequency scaled neighborhood of the geodesic flow. We show that in the...
- Subject:
- Theoretical mathematics and Mathematics
- Creator:
- Rabinowitz, Abraham
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16093 and etdadmin_upload_903279
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- Description:
- This thesis is composed of two major parts. The first major part includes the first two chapters. In Chapter 1, we go over the history and background of spin glass theory and introduce the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model and the Ghatak-Sherrington (GS) model. In Chapter 2, we introduce the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP)...
- Keyword:
- Spin Glass and Probability
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Chen, Xi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903175 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16090
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- Description:
- “Coalitional Aesthetics” argues that leftist literary works of the 1930s enacted bonds of solidarity across racial, linguistic, and geographic divides, modeling alternative, non-hierarchical modes of social cohesion. Building on Gramsci’s concept of the coalitional, coalitional aesthetics refers to a set of formal characteristics that insist on the specificity of the...
- Keyword:
- International Publishers, Anthology, Nancy Cunard, John Reed Clubs, Langston Hughes, and Writers Congress
- Subject:
- American literature, African American studies, and American history
- Creator:
- Beeber, Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16092 and etdadmin_upload_903227
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops a causal theory of the relevant alternatives in a situation and applies this theory to the semantics and epistemology of conditionals, the theory of knowledge, and the epistemology of stereotyping. The first chapter presents the theory of causal models and causal alternatives. The second chapter applies this...
- Keyword:
- Counterfactuals, Causal Modeling, and Knowledge
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vandenburgh, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16094 and etdadmin_upload_903305
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- Description:
- In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hundreds of Venetian women began musical training in childhood to become professional musicians, known as figlie di coro (daughters of the choir), in the four charitable Ospedali Maggiori. These women overcame childhood poverty and abandonment to awe prestigious guests with their skills and even...
- Keyword:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Sacred Music, Conservatories, Charitable Instituions, Venice Italy, and Women Musicians
- Subject:
- Women's studies, Music history, and Gender studies
- Creator:
- Tonelli, Vanessa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16064 and etdadmin_upload_902167
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- Description:
- It is widely understood that people’s perceptions of themselves and tasks influence their engagement and effort. Further, these relationships are often viewed as the purview of the individual. In contrast, research on human development has documented the influences of participation in multiple (often overlapping) contexts on individual development. Processes of...
- Subject:
- Education
- Creator:
- Leatherwood, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903343 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16096
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- Description:
- CD99-Like 2 (CD99L2) is a 52 kDa type I glycoprotein expressed on leukocytes and endothelial cells as well as other cell types in mice. It is related to CD99, although it shows only 32% sequence identity. CD99L2 has been shown to play a role in leukocyte extravasation in mice under...
- Keyword:
- Transmigration, CD99-like 2, Endothelial Cell, Leukocyte, PECAM, and Inflammation
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Immunology, and Pathology
- Creator:
- Rutledge, Nakisha S
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903372 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16098
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to develop an experimental setup to evaluate and analyze the effect of crack-parallel stress on the fracture response of materials. In standard fracture test configurations, the crack-parallel normal stress is negligible. However, a new type of experiment, briefly named the gap test, revealed that...
- Subject:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Nguyen, Hoang Thai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903421 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16100
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays on housing and macroeconomics. The first chapter explores the impact of demographic change on housing price using a heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model. The second chapter examines the relationship between the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) and the housing choice. The third chapter presents...
- Keyword:
- consumption, overlapping generation model, demographics, and housing
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Matsumura, Kohei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16101 and etdadmin_upload_903491
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- Description:
- Learning to read is a complex process that requires integration across sensory, cognitive, and linguistic processes. Accordingly, there are numerous process that may lead to early reading difficulties. The earlier these difficulties are found, the more effective interventions can be, and the deleterious effects of falling behind in reading cannot...
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology, Audiology, and Educational psychology
- Creator:
- McWeeny, Sean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16103 and etdadmin_upload_903579
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- Description:
- Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...
- Keyword:
- Avant-garde performance, Black feminism, and Performance studies
- Subject:
- Gender studies, African American studies, and Performing arts
- Creator:
- Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104 and etdadmin_upload_903678
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- Description:
- Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent, recurrent, and major public health problems. Decades of research has uncovered associations between symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression and abnormal neural activation across executive control-, threat-, and reward-related networks. Recent studies have developed a hierarchical symptom structure of anxiety and depression termed the...
- Keyword:
- Anxiety, Reward, Depression, EEG, Threat, and Executive Control
- Subject:
- Psychology, Physiology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Glazer, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903824 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16106
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- Description:
- A unifying concept across many fields, ranging from chemistry to architecture, is the bottom-up construction of sophisticated structures from simple building blocks. Materials with long-range order allow for consistent, predictable performance throughout the resulting structure. My research focuses on building highly ordered porous materials from atomic level building blocks based...
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Wasson, Megan C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16105 and etdadmin_upload_903742
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- Description:
- Yugoslav wartime television news often conformed to the demands of the political regimes. Informed by this knowledge, scholars have argued that TV as a medium incited and legitimized the wars by fostering ethnonationalist ideologies. Using archival and textual analysis, this project examines how television reacted to the political constraints imposed...
- Keyword:
- Third space, Hybridity, Postcolonial theory, Genre, Television, and The former Yugoslavia
- Subject:
- Film studies and Communication
- Creator:
- Jelušić, Jelena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16029 and etdadmin_upload_900278
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- Description:
- The past decade has seen the rapid progress of deep learning, which becomes a game-changing technique in different data-intensive domains, with the availability of large scale data, cost-effective computing hardware and more advanced learning theory and algorithms. Despite of the rapid progress of deep learning methods in daily-life applications, such...
- Keyword:
- Representation Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Data Science, Computational Photography, and Dataset Construction
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Computer science, and Information technology
- Creator:
- Jiang, Weixin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16024 and etdadmin_upload_899812
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- Description:
- Failed continental rifts provide unique opportunities to study aspects of plate tectonic evolution frozen in time. North America contains three major failed rifts: The Midcontinent Rift (MCR), Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen (SOA), and the Reelfoot Rift (RR). To understand why some rifts fail and why others might succeed to seafloor spreading,...
- Keyword:
- Midcontinent Rift, Paleomagnetism, Paleopole, Gravity Modeling, and Continental Rifting
- Subject:
- Geophysics and Plate tectonics
- Creator:
- Elling, Reece Phillip
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900658 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16034
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- Description:
- Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, has received considerable interests in recent years. It enables fabrication of complex, customizable parts that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible for traditional manufacturing methods. 3D printing encompasses a wide variety of processes, including photopolymerization, material extrusion, selective laser sintering,...
- Keyword:
- Optical Imaging System, Continuous Liquid Interface Production, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Hai, Rihan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16043 and etdadmin_upload_900931
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- Description:
- Myoelectric pattern recognition-based upper limb prostheses measure electromyographic (EMG) signals from the residual limb and learn to identify muscle activity patterns that correspond to intended gestures. To train an accurate pattern recognition controller, it is essential that the training signals typify signals measured in real-world scenarios. When these conditions are...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Teh, Yuni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16046 and etdadmin_upload_900944
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three essays that study dynamic decisions under uncertainty--in particular, ambiguity. The first two chapters develop new decision models that emphasize the role of making statistical inferences in decisions. The third chapter highlights, in the context of persuasion, how different decision models can lead to distinct conclusions in...
- Keyword:
- Dynamic Decision, Robust Decision, Persuasion, Updating, Ambiguity, and Learning
- Subject:
- Economic theory and Economics
- Creator:
- Cheng, Xiaoyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16047 and etdadmin_upload_901139
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the limitations of incentive design in organizations and how they lead to inefficient outcomes. Chapter 1 studies how a coalition coordinates its members when they freely join and leave. It characterizes the conditions under which such coordination prevents the coalition from forming in the first place. In...
- Keyword:
- Delegation, Coalition Formation, Organization, Incentives, Coalition, and Performance Manipulation
- Subject:
- Economic theory, Organization theory, and Management
- Creator:
- Yan, Ruozhou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901237 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16048
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- Description:
- From energy to materials, hydrocarbon chemistry drives our world. Stemming from the petrochemical industry, our understanding of CxHy combinations has allowed society to flourish, and hydrocarbons will likely remain valuable species in our future even as we transition to greener carbon and hydrogen sources. Currently, one of the most efficient...
- Keyword:
- acid zeolite, DFT, nickel, modeling, oligomerization, and catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Koninckx, Elsa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16036 and etdadmin_upload_900740
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three chapters: two are empirical studies of policy design in small-business lending markets, while the final is a large-scale retrospective of retail mergers. Chapter 1 examines moral hazard in loan guarantee programs. To address credit constraints in small-business lending markets, policymakers frequently rely on loan guarantees,...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Stillerman, David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16040 and etdadmin_upload_900821
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- Description:
- This thesis describes an exploratory project to develop a highly non-traditional approach to devise novel test methods for characterizing the properties of materials that are essential to the design of sustainable and resilient infrastructure, particularly naturally occurring materials such as soils and rocks. The central idea is that the material...
- Subject:
- Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Nally, Anastasia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_898203 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16010
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- Description:
- Reproduction requires a complex orchestration of processes from the formation of the reproductive system through the successful development of the fetus, and nutrients are necessary to fuel these processes during many aspects of reproduction. Zinc is an essential metal that is fundamental in gamete maturation, gonadogenesis, and fertilization. Disruption in...
- Keyword:
- Reproductive biology, Ovulation, Labile zinc, Live imaging, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Zinc transporters
- Subject:
- Cellular biology, Molecular biology, and Genetics
- Creator:
- Sue, Aaron Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16074 and etdadmin_upload_902758
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- Description:
- I set up a disagreement model where traders not only have different interpretations of a public signal that conveys information of a stock, but are also uncertain about the information quality of others' interpretations. The model along with traders being ambiguity-averse predicts a positive relation between investor disagreement (ID) and...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Hsiao, Lawrence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_902772 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16075
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(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of The Women’s March
- Description:
- “(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of the Women’s March” argues that contemporary feminist politics are characterized by debates and contestations concerning the political demands of intersectionality. Contemporary feminist theory and politics are particularly and peculiarly preoccupied with making these judgements about the political...
- Keyword:
- Intersectionality, Political Theory, Feminist Theory, and Feminism
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Auriemma, Rhiannon L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_902338 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16068
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- Description:
- This paper studies the joint importance of dissemination and the structure of firms’ information networks in the pricing of value relevant financial information. I first document that disruptions to the dissemination of information on Twitter.com cause the market to react less to earnings news. Using ten staggered Twitter outages, which...
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Zhang, Valerie Xiao Yue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_902484 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16070
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- Description:
- A prominent cause of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is gonadotoxic cancer therapies, which deplete the ovarian reserve of follicles, oocytes, and hormone-producing cells. Current fertility preservation methods include the removal and cryopreservation of ovarian tissue prior to gonadotoxic treatment. This cryopreserved tissue can be transplanted back and has been found...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Henning, Nathaniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16071 and etdadmin_upload_902584
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- Description:
- Engineering responses of soft materials at hierarchical time and length scales is of great interest to both fundamental science and technological applications. In recent years, the hybridization between emerging soft condense matters and conventional hard condense matters keeps enriching the materials library of humankind and opens another largely-uncharted venue for...
- Keyword:
- Active Colloids, Soft Materials, Collective Behavior, Stimuli-responsive Materials, Active Matter, and Stokesian Dynamics
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Computational physics, and Physics
- Creator:
- Yuan, Hang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900796 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16039
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- Description:
- Having an Experience: Media Franchises, Events, & Participatory Culture explores, like its title suggests, what we mean when we talk about “having an experience” in today’s media culture. Traveling to an expanded network of sites where media fans are actively called to go out and “have an experience” in the...
- Keyword:
- transmedia, media industries, digital media, cultural studies, media audiences, and the experience economy
- Subject:
- Film studies and Communication
- Creator:
- Moulton, Carter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901600 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16054
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- Description:
- Chapter 1 proposes and tests a model where a country aligns with a foreign power to obtain its support and reduce its geopolitical risks, which also depend on the country's exposure to the other foreign powers. We show that the country's alignment with a given foreign power is increasing in...
- Keyword:
- Interstate Alignment, Political Favoritism, Internal Conflicts, Geopolitics, and Social Status
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Porcellacchia, Michael Franco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16076 and etdadmin_upload_902835
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- Description:
- With the ever-increasing demand for more complex functionalities and miniaturization of photonic devices, the design of such devices requires a whole new different approach, deviating from classical photonic design approaches. Conventionally, the design of a typical photonic device starts with a prior knowledge, intuition, and practical experience of specific behavior...
- Keyword:
- Optimization, Nanophotonics, Inverse design, and Two-photon polymerization
- Subject:
- Electromagnetics
- Creator:
- Hadibrata, Wisnu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_885069 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15967
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- Description:
- SAMDI-MS, which stands for self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS), is a powerful tool that has enabled the development of novel high-throughput screening and experimentation methods for decades. SAMDI-MS works by immobilizing analytes to functionalized SAMs prior to MS analysis and is capable of...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Biochemistry, and Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Pluchinsky, Adam John
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_885633 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15968
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- Description:
- X-rays have become a staple in the investigation of the natural world. The high penetration and short wavelength of X rays means extended samples can be imaged at high resolution. With the increasing brightness of synchrotron light sources as well as the development of commercial sources the continued development and...
- Subject:
- Optics
- Creator:
- Vacek, Everett Paul
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15961 and etdadmin_upload_883617
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- Description:
- This dissertation centers gay and lesbian activists, their lawyers, and public interest litigation organizations in a genealogical understanding of the evolution of human rights law in the LGBTIQ+ issue space. I ask why sexual minorities turned to the courts in pursuit of the decriminalization of homosexual sex. Empirically, I examine...
- Keyword:
- Legal Mobilization, Transnational Judicial Dialogue, LGBTQ Rights, Norm Diffusion, Social Movements, and Human Rights
- Subject:
- International relations
- Creator:
- Perrin, Ayodeji Kamau
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15973 and etdadmin_upload_888425
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- Description:
- This thesis examines the role of the media in stock markets and the role of transparency in investment decisions. In the first two chapters, I investigate how the contrasting trends in media coverage and earnings guidance have affected stock price informativeness over the past two decades. I develop a model...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Topbas, Yunus
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_889149 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15976
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- Description:
- The goal of this dissertation is to develop models, algorithms, and interaction protocols to improve the efficacy and quality of Human-Autonomy Interaction (HAI) in the domain of assistive robotics. In this domain, the most common control paradigm is that of manual teleoperation using control interfaces such as joysticks, switch-based head...
- Keyword:
- Intent Disambiguation, Interface Awareness, Intent Inference, Human Robot Interaction, Shared Autonomy, and Assistive Robotics
- Subject:
- Artificial intelligence and Robotics
- Creator:
- Edakkattil Gopinath, Deepak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_888172 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15972
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- Description:
- Individuals with psychotic disorders experience profound challenges in maintaining a coherent sense of self and identity over time. Although disturbances in the basic, momentary sense of self are core features of psychotic experiences, less is known about psychosis’s impact on the autobiographical self, the experience of being a coherent and...
- Keyword:
- Emerging adulthood, Clinical high risk for psychosis, Narrative identity, Self-concept, Resting-state functional connectivity, and Self-referential processing
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, and Personality psychology
- Creator:
- Cowan, Henry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_888615 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15974
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- Description:
- Scalable processing of well-defined interfaces is key not only for wider application of two-dimensional (2D) materials in technology but also for improved fundamental understanding. Atomic layer deposition has useful characteristics, especially self-limited growth at low temperatures, that make it well suited for the production of uniform interfaces. Related processes, such...
- Keyword:
- van der Waals epitaxy, atomic layer deposition, and 2D material
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Nanotechnology
- Creator:
- Moody, Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15979 and etdadmin_upload_889957
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- Description:
- Models of recursive preferences are commonly associated with a preference for early resolution of uncertainty, often regarded as an important economic channel in applications. This dissertation provides a different understanding of recursive preferences based on attitudes toward correlation, and in particular aversion to intertemporally correlated risks. Part 1 provides a...
- Keyword:
- Uncertainty, Risk, Prior selection, Robustness, and Ambiguity
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Stanca, Lorenzo Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_891458 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15985
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- Description:
- While the scholarship on policing and surveillance suggests that police departments have and use a wide array of sophisticated tools, the literature has largely focused on only a handful of the largest departments. Moreover, these studies tend to be qualitative, so it is difficult to pinpoint what factors might be...
- Keyword:
- Surveillance, Police, Social control, Technology, and Foucault
- Subject:
- Criminology, Law enforcement, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Oliver, Mariana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_895251 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15995
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- Description:
- The cerebellar cortical system is an extensively studied circuit which is critical for motor learning. While multiple monoamines, such as norepinephrine and serotonin, modulate cerebellar cortical output, the mechanistic details of dopaminergic signaling in the cerebellum remain poorly understood. Additionally, neuronal cell types residing within the cerebellum remain relatively under-characterized....
- Keyword:
- Light sheet microscope, Cerebellum, Dopamine, and Unipolar brush cells
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Canton-Josh, Jose Ernesto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_896041 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15996
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three aspects of healthcare market regulation. Chapter 1 studies the optimal design of quality scores for health insurance plans. Regulators often generate quality scores to help consumers with limited information about product quality, as in schooling, healthcare, and financial markets. When designing scores, regulators must not only...
- Keyword:
- medicare advantage, Industrial organization, quality scores, information design, and star ratings
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Vatter, Benjamin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15997 and etdadmin_upload_896226
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- Description:
- Bioelectronic devices at the biotic/abiotic interface face a number of key challenges that include device degradation when exposed to biological fluid, their elicited immune response due to mechanical mismatch, and poor signal transduction. Organic electronic materials and their devices, such as organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) address these shortcomings. They can...
- Keyword:
- bioelectronics, Transistors, and Organic
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Rashid, Reem Basel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_896768 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15998
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the experience of violence and precarity among Central American youth as they travel through Mexico to the United States. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted across Mexico from 2015 to 2019, I illustrate how the journey of these youth migrants is, in its basic expression, an...
- Keyword:
- Youth, Latin America, Central America, Violence, Migration, and Children
- Subject:
- Latin American studies, Social research, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Escamilla Garcia, Angel Alfonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_896810 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15999
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- Description:
- Does race matter globally, beyond national and regional contexts? If yes, then how exactly? I argue that race matters globally and develop an account for understanding that significance. I call the account “global racial capitalism.” In chapter 1, I offer background to motivate and defend the thesis that race matters...
- Keyword:
- Racial Capitalism, Justice, Race, Racism, Global Justice, and Capitalism
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Political science
- Creator:
- Alnusf, Marzouq
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_897062 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16000
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two chapters. The first one is on microenterprises in developing countries and how they face competition from large corporations. The second one is on estimating the causal effect of childcare availability on the formation and persistence of gender gaps in the Mexican labor market. The first chapter...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Talamas Marcos, Miguel Angel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16012 and etdadmin_upload_898300
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- Description:
- Androgen receptor pathway inhibitors are the mainstay treatment for advanced prostate cancer, but resistance is common. Here, we used a CRISPR activation screen to identify genes that promote enzalutamide resistance in the metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer cell line LNCaP. We found that activation of the TGF-β target gene, PRRX2, promoted...
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Rodriguez, Yara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16015 and etdadmin_upload_898469
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- Description:
- This dissertation contributes to the theory of segregation and methodologies to measure it. The first two chapters focus on the traditional problem of quantifying segregation in traditional survey data through segregation indices. Segregation indices describe the segregation of an environment with one number – usually from 0 to 1. The...
- Keyword:
- Segregation Index, Segregation, Word Embedding, and Statistical Inference
- Subject:
- Statistics and Sociology
- Creator:
- Nanni, Antonio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16050
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the real effects of firms’ financing decisions as well as the economics consequences of bias in fair value prices of corporate bonds. The first chapter examines the impact of compliance with changes in mandated financial reporting on corporate financing and investment decisions. I employ the recent implementation...
- Subject:
- Accounting and Finance
- Creator:
- Kim, Doyeon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_901879 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16057