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- During pregnancy, mothers undergo a range of physiological changes including shifting hormone levels, modified immune function, and reduced gut motility. These changes are necessary to meet the pregnant mother’s increased energy needs and inhibit rejection of the fetus. The gut microbiota (GM) – the community of microorganisms that live in...
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- Inflammation, Immune Markers, Gut Microbiome, Immune Function, Pregnancy, and Philippines
- Creator:
- Sahana Kuthyar, Delia Carba, Aaron Miller, Madelyn Moy, Thomas McDade, and Katherine Amato
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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Validating Genetic Tools to Isolate Individual ipRGC Subtypes: An Illumination Across Reporter Lines
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- Neuroscience, ipRGCs, and Vision
- Creator:
- Contreras, Ely , Luce, Madison , and Schmidt, Tiffany
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
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- Research finds people reproduce incorrect information provided by their collaborative partners. These “social contagion” effects largely studied memory for information introduced during experiments (e.g., word lists), rather than preexisting knowledge. This study extends the effects of social contagion of memory to social contagion of knowledge: Does what people know to...
- Keyword:
- Social contagion, recall, and preexisting knowledge
- Creator:
- Ella G. DeBode, David N. Rapp, and Nikita A. Salovich
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- For over a hundred years, psychologists have sought to understand the role of spirituality in human behavior and experience, and how it might relate to features of personality. This study considered personal narration of spiritual experience and how it relates to the personality traits of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion,...
- Keyword:
- Spirituality, Race, and Personality
- Creator:
- Simpson, Ahmadu
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Bacteria interact intimately with humans, from “good” bacteria that live in our bodies to “bad” pathogenic bacteria that cause disease. Pathogenic bacteria express virulence genes, which help bacteria invade and attack their host. The ability to control virulence gene expression would help us treat infection more effectively. Several virulence genes...
- Keyword:
- Bacteria, Salmonella typhimurium, Microbiology, and Virulence
- Creator:
- Chen, July
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- An action potential (AP) is a shift in the membrane voltage of a neuron generally caused by a sudden ion influx, resulting in excitation, allowing for the cell to send signals across its neural network. Spontaneous excitation can be crucial for organizing neural circuits, especially in sensory modalities. For hearing...
- Keyword:
- Brains, Activity, and Neuron
- Creator:
- Sriram, Shreya
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Gender-based violence (GBV) is a prevalent issue on a global scale, but the effects of such violence upon Asian/Asian American communities in the United States is compounded by their immigrant, refugee, and/or other historically marginalized identities. While current literature recognizes GBV as a public health issue of equity and social...
- Keyword:
- Anthropology, Critical Race Theory, Gender-Based Violence, Women''s Health, and Asian American Studies
- Creator:
- Wong, Chloe
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Why did political independence not lead to economic autonomy and sustained development which were confidently predicted by many development economists and nationalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Africa will not make sustainable progress in building democratic systems and fostering economic development until the continent acquires coherent, legitimate, and effective states....
- Keyword:
- africa, economic autonomy, and governance
- Creator:
- Joseph, Richard
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Walt Whitman and Lewis J. Cist
- Creator:
- Steiner, Andy
- Contributor:
- Jay Grossman
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Keyword:
- Louis Imogen Guiney
- Creator:
- Kim, Daniel
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Priscilla Jane Thompson
- Creator:
- McCoy, Sara Jane
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Creator:
- Stein, Sarah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/27/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies, Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Poststrukturalismus, Queer Theorie und LGBTQI Theorien, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jeromin, Gesche
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- Anstelle von wöchentlichen Webex-Sitzungen arbeitet dieses Seminar verstärkt mit Podcasts. Zwischen de zweiwöchentlichen Web-Sitzungen lade ich Podcasts zur jeweiligen Seminarlektüre hoch, die Sie im Anschluss auf Moodle im Forum kommentieren oder wo ie Fragen zum Text stellen.
- Keyword:
- Decolonizing Critical Theory
- Creator:
- Govrin, Jule
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- »Vernunftkritik« klingt heute altmodisch, nach einer abgelegten Debatte aus den 1980er Jahren. Doch sind die Fragen, die in der eher unglückselig verlaufenden sogenannten »Foucault-Habermas-Debatte« gestellt wurden, nie wirklich abgegolten worden. Im Seminar werden wir daher die Rolle von Vernunftkritik in der ganzen Bandbreite der Kritischen Theorie – von Theodor W....
- Keyword:
- Epistemologie, Frankfurter Schule, Poststrukturalismus, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vogelmann, Frieder
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Description:
- Die Frage, wie etwas wirklich ist, also ob Wissen und Diskurse Wirklichkeit abbilden oder diese Wirklichkeit performativ hervorbringen, ist eine der zentralen Fragen, wenn es gilt, das differenzierende Gewicht der Kategorien »Geschlecht« und »Rasse« zu bemessen. In diesem Seminar wollen wir zentrale Texte der besonders in den 1990 und frühen...
- Keyword:
- Epistemologie, Critical Race Studies, Decolonizing Critical Theory, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hark, Sabine
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies and Kritische Sozialtheorien
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Keyword:
- Kritische politische Theorien / Radikale Demokratie and Migration und Diaspora
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
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- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020
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- Description:
- "Commodification", "propertization", and "objectification" are all concepts which serve both as descriptive tools for certain tendencies in the historical development of modern, capitalistic social relations and as critical diagnoses of their particular distortions or pathologies. In the seminar, we will first try to highlight the analytic specificity of each phenomenon...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Frankfurter Schule, Grundlagen und Vorläufer*innen der kritischen Theorie, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- von Redecker, Eva
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
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- Keyword:
- Frankfurter Schule, Kritische Sozialtheorien, Grundlagen und Vorläufer*innen der kritischen Theorie, Feministische Theorie und Philosophie, and Kritische Ökonomien
- Creator:
- von Redecker, Eva
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
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- Description:
- Seit einigen Jahrzehnten – und heute mit neuer Vehemenz – gibt es von feministischer, postkolonialer und rassismustheoretischer Seite Interventionen in den philosophischen Kanon und das Selbstverständnis der Philosophie. Nicht nur stecken die klassischen philosophischen Texte voller misogyner und rassistischer Anekdoten und Andeutungen, sondern auch die scheinbar neutralen Begriffe und Themen,...
- Keyword:
- Epistemologie, Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Decolonizing Critical Theory, and Ethik
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Martinez Mateo, Marina
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Description:
- A century ago, in the winter of 1920/21, Walter Benjamin penned his essay "Critique of Violence," which has lost none of its fascination today, despite (or perhaps because of) its apodictic style, its opaque use of metaphor, and its erratic argumentation. During the last 30 years, it has become a...
- Keyword:
- Rechtstheorien und Rechtskritiken, Frankfurter Schule, and Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie
- Creator:
- Loick, Daniel
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- The aim of this course is to introduce some central methods and motifs in critical theory. In this seminar, the term “critical theory” is not limited to particular traditions or philosophical schools (like the “Frankfurt School”) but has a broader meaning: a theory is to be called ‘critical’ if it...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie and Frankfurter Schule
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Loick, Daniel
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Keyword:
- Politische Theorie, Queer Theorie und LGBTQI Theorien, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Creator:
- Ludwig, Gundula
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/03/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/05/2021
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies and Ästhetik und Kunstphilosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Martinez Mateo, Marina
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/03/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/03/2021
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- Description:
- Michel Foucaults erster Band seines Projekts einer »Geschichte der Sexualität« ist längt ein moderner Klassiker der politischen Theorie/Philosophie. Sein seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre entwickelter Machtbegriff wird darin systematisch expliziert und zugleich in Auseinanderset-zung mit dem historischen Material seiner Untersuchungen weiterentwickelt. Mithilfe dieser methodologischen Begriffsentwicklung kommt Foucault dann zu seinen...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie and Biopolitik
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vogelmann, Frieder
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/03/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2017
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- Description:
- Dass Gewalt ein intrinsisches Element moderner westlicher Gesellschaften ist, wurde von vielen politischen Theoretiker*innen dargelegt. Was aber ist Gewalt? Ist die Verhinderung von Lebenschancen Gewalt? Ist Gewalt eine Struktur? Gibt es eine Gewalt der Normen? Wie verhalten sich Politik und Gewalt? Kann der Staat Schutz vor Gewalt bieten? Wie unterscheidet...
- Keyword:
- Politische Theorie and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie Queer Theorie und LGBTQI Theorien
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ludwig, Gundula
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/05/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- In 2011, after just eighteen days, from January 25 to February 11, the Egyptian public overthrew the 30-year-long dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. A decade afterward, we sought to have Egyptians reflect on the collective memory of those days. What fueled the revolution? Was it successful? Did it lose its way?...
- Keyword:
- Egyptian Revolution and Arab Spring
- Creator:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Owner:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-12-20
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A review of the literature demonstrates that being anonymous by wearing a mask has been hypothesized to create many psychological effects, but mainly deindividuation. Numerous distinct explanations have been suggested as to why that effect has come about. Using an ethnographical approach and open-ended interviews, this study investigates through two...
- Keyword:
- COVID-19, Social Psychology , Deindividuation, and Mask
- Creator:
- Hazem Albassam
- Owner:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-5-15
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Motor learning, Adaptation, and Gait
- Creator:
- Keith Gordon, Mary Bucklin, and Geoff Brown
- Owner:
- Mary Bucklin
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 09/02/2021
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- Description:
- Slides for the reserach data management and data sharing session for the 2021 Northwestern University libraries Research Resource Forum (RRF).
- Keyword:
- data, RRF, slides, research resource forum 2021, data sharing, data management best practices, research resource forum, data management, and RRF 2021
- Creator:
- Cunera Buys
- Owner:
- Cunera M Buys
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/15/2021
- Date Modified:
- 09/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 20210915
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
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- Description:
- The explosion of data in the digital age has provided new possibilities for policy creation,the development of knowledge, and societal innovations. In this way, data becomes an essential tool in personal decision-making, legal change, and policy creation as we leverage new forms of data to understand social phenomena. But along...
- Keyword:
- crime, data distortions, methods, and homicide
- Subject:
- Criminology
- Creator:
- Albrecht, Kathryn
- 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:15728 and etdadmin_upload_843965
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- Description:
- Cyber-physical systems (CPS), as a multidisciplinary area, have been widely adopted in our daily life and attract experts from various fields. CPS aims to achieve real-time and resilient connection with physical world through integration of computation, communication and control technologies. Many CPS systems, such as automotive, avionics, and industrial system,...
- Keyword:
- cross-layer design, cyber-physical system, real-time system, and weakly-hard system
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Liang, Hengyi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845636 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15779
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- Description:
- High-throughput methods enable rapid experimentation and/or screening of thousands of samples simultaneously. Mass-spectrometry based methods are of particular interest since they provide a label-free way to detect all species present in a given reaction mixture. To circumvent sample preparation and purification—which is typically a slow process—the Mrksich group developed a...
- Keyword:
- SAMDI, Biochemical Assays, High-Throughput, Single-Cell, and Mass Spectrometry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hakim Moully, Elamar
- 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:15661 and etdadmin_upload_836023
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- Description:
- “Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship” investigates racial and ethnic impersonationsin American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their American-born children during a time when the United States had absorbed the highest number of...
- Keyword:
- Jewish American, Chinese American, Irish American , Racial impersonation, Immigration history , and American popular entertainment
- Subject:
- Performing arts, Theater history, and American studies
- Creator:
- De Simone, Maria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844553 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15740
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- Description:
- Optical microscopy is one of the most ubiquitous tools for functional imaging of biological phenomena. While relatively non-destructive to living organisms, light microscopy’s spatial resolution is diffraction limited, restricting the minimum resolvable features. On the other hand, high resolution techniques such as electron microscopy or STORM, have several orders of...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Eid, Aya
- 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:15612 and etdadmin_upload_827891
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- Description:
- Neutron star mergers instigate a wealth of observable astrophysical signals, offering key insights into interdisciplinary questions in stellar astronomy, nuclear physics, cosmology, and atomic physics. The coalescence of neutron stars and/or black holes produces gravitational wave emission, only recently accessible to ground-based laser-interferometric detectors. Additionally, these mergers can incite emission...
- Keyword:
- Astrophysics, Kilonova, Gravitational waves, Neutron stars, and Compact objects
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Creator:
- Chase, Eve Adde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_833365 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15648
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- Description:
- From its inception in the early 1900s, vocational education in American high schools was designed to prepare students for jobs that did not require any formal postsecondary education. In the last decades of the 20th century, growing concern about how separating students into “college” and “non-college” tracks often perpetuated racial...
- Keyword:
- Career and Technical Education
- Subject:
- Educational sociology, Vocational education, and Secondary education
- Creator:
- Meissner, Lynn
- 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:15761 and etdadmin_upload_845255
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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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 purpose of this research project was to highlight that there are different perspectives on mental health that stem from various experiences. All of these views should be valued and not discriminated against for any reason other than that they are different. As a child of Soviet Immigrants, I quickly...
- Keyword:
- global health
- Creator:
- Shteynberg, Emily
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Modified:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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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
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- Description:
- Mitochondria-lysosome contacts are recently identified sites for mediating crosstalk between both organelles, but their role in normal and diseased human neurons remains unknown. We used super-resolution and live-cell microscopy in human iPSC-derived neurons to demonstrate that mitochondria-lysosome contacts can dynamically form in the soma, axons, and dendrites of human neurons,...
- Keyword:
- iPSC, Interorganelle contacts, GBA, Lysosome, Mitochondria, and Parkinson's disease
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Cellular biology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kim, Soojin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_825288 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15606
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we consider how simple operational levers affect a firm's revenue and consumer surplus. In particular, we focus on information disclosure as an useful control for omnichannel services.In the first chapter we consider a revenue-maximizing service firm that caters to price and delay-sensitive customers. The firm offers a...
- Keyword:
- Pricing in Queuing Systems, Strategic Queuing, Information Disclosure, Omnichannel Services, Digital Innovation, and Service Operations
- Subject:
- Management and Operations research
- Creator:
- Ghosh, Abhishek
- 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:15646 and etdadmin_upload_832994
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- Description:
- Theoretical and empirical inquiries into queer geographies have focused primarily on how white gay subjects navigate urban landscapes. Consequently, there has been little empirical work that examines (1) queer placemaking within Black and brown urban spaces; (2) placemaking among queer women of color; and (3) the relationship and interplay between...
- Keyword:
- queer studies, digital ethnography, black queer studies, urban ethnography, sexuality, and black feminism
- Subject:
- Sociology and Gender studies
- Creator:
- Adams-Santos, Dominique
- 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:15633 and etdadmin_upload_831238
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid halide perovskites have been the response to their exciting but woefully unstable 3D counterparts. These 2D perovskites have been shown to have respectable stabilities as photovoltaic absorbers, yet they lag behind the 3D perovskites in terms of efficiency. With the need to catch up to the efficiencies...
- Keyword:
- solar cells, perovskites, films, GIWAXS, materials, and mechanisms
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Hoffman, Justin Michael
- 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:15609 and etdadmin_upload_827302
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- Description:
- Symbiotic relationships involve a life-long interaction between host and bacteria, and there is much we do not understand about how these interactions are developed and maintained. During the horizontal recruitment of beneficial bacteria by hosts, a complex set of molecular signals and communication ensures specificity. On the bacterial side, these...
- Keyword:
- Vibrio fischeri, symbiosis, biofilm, and two-component signaling systems
- Subject:
- Microbiology and Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Ludvik, Denise Alberta
- 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:15608 and etdadmin_upload_825957
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
- Keyword:
- Environment, Sympathy, Victorian, Literature, Space, and Silence
- Subject:
- History and English literature
- Creator:
- Mason, Sarah Michelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_838563 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15678
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- Description:
- Nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA of various lengths and structures have a wide scope of functions as therapeutic entities compared to conventional drugs. For instance, native and modified forms of nucleic acids can be used for gene silencing, genome editing, gene replacement, immune system modulation, and theranostics. While...
- Keyword:
- lipids, drug delivery, DNA, RNA, and nanoparticles
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Sinegra, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845229 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15759
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- Description:
- This dissertation proposes a theory that views beats as probabilistic domains that I term “pockets,” taking a vernacular term commonly used by jazz, funk, and popular music performers to describe the state of being in a good groove and making it concrete through empirical methods. Pockets have three key properties:...
- Keyword:
- microtiming, rhythm, corpus studies, and music information retrieval
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Hosken, Fred
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844477 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15738
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- Description:
- A framework is developed that models point defect diffusion and interaction with pre-existing microstructures during irradiation, including defect-defect interactions and defect sinks. This framework uses a modified diffusion potential that includes not only defect concentration, but also intrinsic stresses from the pre-existing microstructure. Various microstructures are studied in {Fe} by...
- Keyword:
- Grain boundaries, Voids, Point defects, Radiation, Crack tip, and Triple junctions
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Mechanical engineering, and Nuclear engineering
- Creator:
- Zarnas, Patrick
- 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:15639 and etdadmin_upload_831637
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- Description:
- The ubiquitous role of water in biochemical, electrochemical, and geochemical systems has driven scientific interest in studying the fundamental hydrogen-bonding interactions that water molecules exhibit in the presence of different materials.Specifically, we focus on the interactions characterizing water at the interface between two bulk media, as these are essential to...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Dalchand, Naomi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_842499 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15708