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- Successfully grappling with the widespread linguistic variation of daily life requires speakers to adapt to systematic variation in the environment while discarding incidental variation, based on their prior experience. In the case of phonotactics, speakers’ prior experience is that talkers who differ in their language background are likely to vary...
- Keyword:
- Phonotactics, Accent adaptation, Causal Inference, Adaptation, Adult language learning, and Phonotactic learning
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Denby, Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14735 and etdadmin_upload_674207
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- Wastewater and bioreactors in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which can pass through treatment processes and migrate into the environment as they are released in effluent. WWTPs harbor a variety of ARGs that can be spread by horizontal gene transfer facilitated by mobile genetic...
- Keyword:
- viruses, antibiotic resistance genes, biofilms, wastewater, and mobile genetic elements
- Subject:
- Microbiology, Environmental engineering, and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Petrovich, Morgan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_671878 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14727
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- Store-operated Ca2+ entry through Orai1 channels mediate transcriptional, proliferative, and effector cell programs in many cells and are activated through a unique inside-out mechanism involving binding of the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ sensor, STIM1, to cytoplasmic sites on Orai1. Mutations in Orai1 that block channel activation or evoke constitutive channel activity...
- Keyword:
- Orai1, Gating, STIM1, Channel, CRAC, and Calcium
- Subject:
- Pharmacology, Biology, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Yeung, Priscilla See-Wai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_622219 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14422
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores hip-hop as a moral philosophy in action; a set of aesthetic and ethical values that manifest in young people’s perspective about the good life. Hip-hop is an arts movement of rap, movement, and style originating among Black and Latinx youth in the South Bronx during the late...
- Keyword:
- moral pluralism, hip-hop culture, cultural psychology, value socialization, and morality
- Subject:
- Education
- Creator:
- Nzinga, Kalonji
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_633203 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14488
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- Description:
- Numerous photophysical processes in both natural and artificial systems are dictated by the interaction between chromophores. For example, in photosynthesis, light is absorbed by an antenna complex composed of an array of chlorophyll chromophores that collectively transfer the energy to the reaction center where interactions between a series of redox...
- Keyword:
- Time-resolved spectroscopy, Electron transfer, Photophysics, Quantum coherence, Singlet fission, and Excimer
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Phelan, Brian Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_633520 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14489
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- Description:
- Social comparison is a ubiquitous part of social life. People compare themselves to others to establish and maintain a sense of social hierarchy and structure, to develop and sustain interpersonal relationships, and even to help understand themselves. In this dissertation, I focus on how the referent of social comparison –...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Similarity, Social Comparison, Relationships, Innovation, and Metacognition
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Experimental psychology
- Creator:
- Galoni, Chelsea
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14559 and etdadmin_upload_652709
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- The critical importance of alternative mRNA splicing and the RNA binding proteins that orchestrate this essential layer of post-transcriptional gene regulation is increasingly recognized in gene regulatory programs. We and others have shown that alternative splicing plays a causal role during the Epithelial-Mesenchymal transition, a cell-developmental program that is hijacked...
- Keyword:
- splicing factor, RNA, EMT, alternative splicing, RNA binding protein, and metastasis
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Biology
- Creator:
- Harvey, Samuel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14663 and etdadmin_upload_662828
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- Description:
- Viral Verses investigates the influence of social media publication on the relationship between poetry and community formation in southeastern Africa. As more artists in the global South reach wider audiences through online publication, poetic form has shifted to reflect social media’s aesthetic norms, embracing urgency, contemporaneity, and populism. Digital media...
- Keyword:
- Aesthetic networks, Southeastern Africa, Literary history, Social media, Poetry and poetics, and Poetry performance
- Subject:
- Sociology, Literature, and African literature
- Creator:
- Sacks, Susanna L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_666603 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14695
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- Description:
- Increasing industrialization and the resulting negative environmental impacts highlight the need to develop alternative renewable energy sources. The Sun is a massive source and organic solar cells are a growing field of study. As new materials are synthesized, the efficiencies of organic solar cells continue to grow, but without an...
- Keyword:
- x-ray scattering, transient absorption, and organic solar cell
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Lou, Sylvia Jen-Ming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_626768 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14458
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- Description:
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful analytical technique that can detect single molecules and simultaneously obtain structural information. When an analyte molecule binds to a nanostructured noble metal surface, the otherwise weak normal Raman signal is enhanced by as much as a factor of 108. This makes SERS the...
- Keyword:
- Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and single molecule spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Nanoscience
- Creator:
- Wong, Nolan Log-chi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14406 and etdadmin_upload_617842
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- This work combines the use of high-throughput mass spectrometry with peptide arrays for to monitor reactions on peptides. The Mrksich lab introduced a high-throughput, label-free, biochemical assay that relies on self-assembled monolayers on gold and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, termed SAMDI-MS. This dissertation introduces new applications of SAMDI-MS and...
- Keyword:
- High-throughput, SAMDI, Phosphatase, Mass spectrometry, and Peptide Arrays
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Szymczak, Lindsey Catherine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14701 and etdadmin_upload_667038
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- Description:
- Organismal development depends upon countless cell decisions to adopt particular fates at the appropriate time and place. These decisions are executed by systems of biochemical reactions called regulatory networks. Elucidating the general principles underlying the structure and function of these networks is vital to understanding all developmental processes, as well...
- Keyword:
- Development, Quantitative Biology, Cell Decisions, Mosaic Analysis, Drosophila, and Metabolism
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Bernasek, Sebastian Michal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_663067 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14676
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- Description:
- This study examines how Latino migration politics developed in Chicago from the 1930s to the 1970s. Although scholars usually identify the emergence of Latino immigration activism in the 1960s and predominantly in the region of the Southwest with the farm workers movement, this study argues that immigration activism began much...
- Keyword:
- Immigration Activism, Social movement, Latino History, and Chicago social reform
- Subject:
- History and Hispanic American studies
- Creator:
- Santana-Rivera, Melissa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662004 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14620
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- Description:
- One of the grand challenges in materials chemistry and nanochemistry is the development of functional materials through ordered, hierarchical structures using synthetic building blocks. Nature has done this through evolution of molecular components such as nucleic acids, saccharides, lipids, amino acids, and inorganic crystals. The precise spatial positioning of these...
- Keyword:
- Hierarchical Order, Responsive Materials, Peptide Amphiphiles, Self-Assembly, Materials chemistry, and Nanochemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Chin, Stacey Megan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_639807 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14525
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- Description:
- This thesis centers around the development and application of novel high throughput lithography tools. These advances help: 1) establish the field of nanocombinatorics, where massive libraries (termed megalibraries) of materials can be prepared in a positionally encoded manner and then screened for functional activity, and 2) advance stereolithographic 3D printing...
- Keyword:
- Scanning Probe, Nanolithography, 3D Printing, Lithography, Combinatorial Libraries, and Additive Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Hedrick, James Lupton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662564 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14647
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- Description:
- Type I interferon (IFN) is the primary antiviral cytokine establishing a broad and potent antiviral response to protect mammalian cells from virus infection. The functional repertoire of IFN extends to innate and adaptive immunity, neoplastic transformation, resistance and cancer immunotherapy. IFN functions are primarily mediated through the Janus kinase (JAK)...
- Keyword:
- ISGF3, Interferon, Chromatin, Antiviral, ISG, and H2A.Z
- Subject:
- Virology, Molecular biology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Au Yeung, Weng Si (Nancy)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_618020 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14409
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three empirical studies in economic history and labor economics. The first chapter discusses two sources of historical data on work stoppages in the United States: the Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor (1888) and the Tenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor (1896). It...
- Subject:
- Economic history and Economics
- Creator:
- Bittarello, Luca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14721 and etdadmin_upload_669611
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- Description:
- The vast majority of interactions between customers and service providers are experiences that extend over time. Service systems that deliver excellent customer experience achieve greater customer satisfaction and therefore customer loyalty, and eventually raise revenue. The temporal aspects of service delivery have not yet been analyzed as carefully as its...
- Keyword:
- Predictive Analytics, Service Operations, Satisfaction, Wait-time, and Markov Decision Process
- Subject:
- Industrial engineering and Operations research
- Creator:
- Ansari, Sina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_617413 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14402
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- Nanocarriers are nanometer-sized (1-1000 nm) structures capable of encapsulating cargo. This encapsulation can drastically alter the pharmacokinetic properties of the cargo, while also allowing for the rational design and engineering of the nanocarrier itself. Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene sulfide) is an amphiphilic diblock copolymer capable of self-assembling into diverse nanocarriers. The purpose...
- Keyword:
- flash nanoprecipitation, nanoparticle, copolymer, anti-inflammatory, and PEG-b-PPS
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering and Biology
- Creator:
- Allen, Sean David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14509 and etdadmin_upload_638353
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- Description:
- Nanomaterials are broadly defined as materials that exhibit at least one dimension that is less than 1,000 nm. Encompassed within nanomaterials are a class of constructs known as nanocarriers, which are applied as delivery vehicles for both encapsulated and covalently bound payloads. Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene sulfide) (PEG-b-PPS) is an amphiphilic block...
- Keyword:
- Sustained Delivery, Surface Functionalization, Nanocarrier, MPS, and PEG-b-PPS
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Karabin, Nicholas Blaise
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_666953 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14700
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- Description:
- The cellular innate immune response to viruses is a defense mechanism executed by most cells in the human body to form the initial barrier to virus replication. Detection of viral nucleic acids initiates widespread gene expression changes that combine to establish an antiviral state and stimulate professional immune cell activation....
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Kasat, Roli Mandhana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_618029 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14410
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- Description:
- Functional electronic materials are difficult to design due to the complex interplay among chemistry, atomic structure, and electrical properties. This dilemma is further amplified in transition metal compounds which can defy the band-theory description of non-correlated electrons. Exploring the vast possible design space completely with experiments or first-principles simulations is...
- Keyword:
- Transition metal oxides, Metal-insulator transition, Machine learning, and Data science
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Wagner, Nicholas Adam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14800 and etdadmin_upload_685025
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- Description:
- International media immediately lambasted plans to build a Louvre and a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the whimsy of wealthy sheikhs using oil money to “buy culture.” The museums are part of a $27b development project called Saadiyat Island. While Saadiyat is spectacular, dismissing it...
- Keyword:
- critique, art, culture, museums, and politics
- Subject:
- Art history, Middle Eastern studies, and Cultural anthropology
- Creator:
- Derderian, Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14736 and etdadmin_upload_674378
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- Description:
- The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the adoption of active mobility through the lens of three fundamental concepts: scale, segment, and neighborhood. Scale refers to both the aggregation of geospatial data and the measurement of latent constructs through behavioral survey instruments. Segment refers to the various clustering approaches...
- Keyword:
- active transportation, market segmentation, community, well-being, and travel behavior change
- Subject:
- Geography, Social psychology, and Transportation
- Creator:
- Biehl, Alec Michel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685030 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14802
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- Description:
- The work in this thesis focuses on computational methods for the identification of novel enzymatic pathways. In particular this work focuses on the utilization of the Biological Network Integrated Computational Explorer (BNICE) software suite to predict de novo enzymatic pathways for the production of commercially relevant compounds and on improvements...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Stine, Andrew Eugene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_614431 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14393
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- Description:
- Musical meter is often described as an objective grid-like system of time-points that is created by musical sounds. I define meter instead as any pattern of felt beats an individual listener chooses to hear, a physical and cognitive interpretation of the music that is (re-) created in the moment of...
- Keyword:
- Embodiment, Cognitive Science, Motion, Rhythm, Performance Studies, and Meter
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Hudson, Stephen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662796 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14661
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- Description:
- Biomaterials have immense potential for studying fundamental biological processes and developing therapies to help regenerate or replace the structure and function of injured tissues. In order to accomplish this, they need to be designed to mimic the structure and function of Nature’s most important material, the extracellular matrix (ECM) surrounding...
- Keyword:
- Peptide Amphiphile, Growth Factor, Aptamer, Biomaterials, Self-assembly, and Extracellular Matrix
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Serrano, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_681720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14779
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- Description:
- Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) systems fabricated using atomically-thin materials have low mass and high stiffness and are thus ideal candidates for force and mass sensing applications. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer certain unique properties in their few-layered form – such as piezoelectricity and a direct band gap in some cases – and...
- Keyword:
- Nanoresonators, 2D Materials, Single Cell Analysis, Raman Spectroscopy, Localized Electroporation, and Cavity-Interferometry
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Nathamgari, Samba Shiva Prasad
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_643740 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14546
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- Description:
- The dissertation systematically delineates the mechanically-guided deterministic assembly of three-dimensional (3D) mesostructures by compressive buckling, covering topics from mechanics concepts, design and analysis, fabrication techniques, to application opportunities. The development of approaches to form complex 3D functional mesostructures in advanced materials is a topic of broad interest, thanks to the...
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Mechanical engineering, and Civil engineering
- Creator:
- Luan, Haiwen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14682 and etdadmin_upload_663249
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- Description:
- Plato's readers struggle to reconcile his combination of conceptual argument and mimetic fiction. In this dissertation, I suggest we can understand this discomfiting combination if we understand the dialogues as "the mimesis of people in speech." Because speech is both referential and performative, speech is a hybrid of thought and...
- Keyword:
- Bakhtin, tragedy, poetics, Aristotle, and Platonic dialogue
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical studies, and Literature
- Creator:
- Curry, Ruth Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640197 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14536
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- Description:
- The development and use of organic anionic chromophores that absorb the entire visible spectrum & into the near-infrared region while providing highly reducing equivalents is pinnacle for artificial photosynthesis. This dissertation investigates the rational design of new donor-acceptor systems for artificial photosynthesis that couple naphthalene diimide (NDI)/perylene diimide (PDI) radical...
- Keyword:
- Naphthalene Diimide, Perylene Diimide, Carbon Dioxide, Re(bpy)(CO)3, Mn(bpy)(CO)3, and Radical Anions
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- Martinez, Jose Fabian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_613990 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14388
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- Description:
- Abstract The relationship between truth and politics is an ancient and venerable problem in political philosophy. But just as the traditional subordination of politics to philosophy has obscured central categories and experiences of politics (like action and freedom), it has also obscured the distinctive problem of truth in politics, or...
- Keyword:
- Truth, Earth, Arendt, Lying, Authority, and Science
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Neame, Alexandra Catherine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_627550 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14478
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- Description:
- I. The distribution of tsunami amplitudes in the open ocean is controlled by source mechanism and bathymetry geometry. Although detailed studies have considered heterogeneity effects in earthquake tsunami sources, little or no attention has been paid to the effects of physical resolution of detailed bathymetry on tsunami waveforms in the...
- Keyword:
- Earthquakes, Bathymetry, Tsunamis, Spherical Harmonics, Landslides, and Meteotsunamis
- Subject:
- Geophysics and Geology
- Creator:
- Salaree, Amirmahmood
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_655160 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14565
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- Description:
- Conservation efforts start with understanding the life cycle and interactions of species. For example, orchid conservation requires understanding pollinators as well as mycorrhizal fungi because these are mutualisms orchids require. For instance, all orchids require assistance from orchid mycorrhizal fungi (OMF) to germinate and some orchid species continue to be...
- Keyword:
- Epiphytes, Dendrophylax lindenii, Orchid mycorrhizal fungi, Orchids, helper bacteria, and Vanilla
- Subject:
- Plant sciences
- Creator:
- Johnson, Lynnaun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14654 and etdadmin_upload_662685
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- Description:
- Proper size control of organs and tissues is critical to their function, and it is necessary for the millions of precisely sized tubes that make up those organs— for example, excessive cell growth can lead to devastating diseases such as Polycystic Kidney Disease. The regulation of tube growth is therefore...
- Keyword:
- Trafficking, Non-apoptotic, Trachea, Caspase, and Apoptosis
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Biology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- McSharry, Saoirse Susan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661142 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14599
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- Description:
- “Repurposing Queens: Excavating a Black Feminist Eco-ethic in a Time of Ecological Peril,” articulates how Black feminist theories of race, gender, and science critique both conservative and liberal trends in environmentalism and environmental studies. The project is transnational in scope in that it analyzes figures/objects from the United States and...
- Keyword:
- Black feminist theory, Science and Technology Studies, Afrofuturism, African literature, Visual Culture, and Environmental Humanities
- Subject:
- African American studies, Women's studies, and English literature
- Creator:
- Frazier, Chelsea Mikael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14775 and etdadmin_upload_680650
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- Description:
- The mammalian oocyte undergoes large fluctuations in zinc content as it matures from a prophase I arrested oocyte to a metaphase II egg and finally is fertilized to become a zygote. These changes in total zinc content are necessary for proper progression, as disruption to egg’s ability to acquire and...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Garwin, Seth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_663081 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14679
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on subgroup identification in longitudinal studies. There are two different but related topics. In chapter two and chapter three, several longitudinal based methods for subgroup identification with enhanced treatment effect are proposed to correct the deficiency in measuring treatment effect by simply using a summary statistic. In...
- Keyword:
- interaction, recursive partitioning, latent trajectory analysis, latent class, precision medicine, and personalized medicine
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Wei, Yishu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14649 and etdadmin_upload_662625
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- Description:
- Bioresponsive imaging probes act as beacons to allow detection, tracking, and study of otherwise invisible actors in biological systems. Understanding how these underlying systems function in their native context is essential to identifying dysfunction and generating effective remedies. Magnetic Resonance techniques are particularly interesting for this application because of the...
- Keyword:
- Imaging Probes, Molecular Imaging, Lanthanides, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Caldwell, Michael Allen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14712 and etdadmin_upload_668587
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- Description:
- The presence of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) among cognitively normal-for-age older adults is increasingly hypothesized to represent a preclinical stage in the development of Alzheimer’s dementia (Jessen et al., 2014). This project aimed to characterize this construct with regard to its cognitive, motor, emotional, and functional features. The first study...
- Keyword:
- subjective cognitive decline, cognitive aging, and Alzheimer's disease
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Kielb, Stephanie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14814 and etdadmin_upload_685763
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- Description:
- The term Connected Vehicle (CV) is broadly used to identify any ‘smart vehicle’ with wireless connectivity to the roadside infrastructure and other vehicles. CVs with automation capabilities are called connected automated vehicles (CAVs). With real-time communication and data transmission capability, CAVs have the potential to improve the transportation system’s traffic...
- Subject:
- Transportation
- Creator:
- Mittal, Archak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14452 and etdadmin_upload_626410
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- Description:
- The embryonic neural crest is a unique vertebrate stem cell population that has the ability to retain its stem attributes while neighboring cells in the embryo undergo lineage restriction. These cells possess multi-germ layer developmental potential and can give rise to a diverse array of derivatives such as components of...
- Keyword:
- pluripotency, HDAC, Neural Crest, TSA, and stem cell
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Rao, Anjali Narsing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_663294 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14684
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- Description:
- Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of gut-brain interaction associated with reduced quality of life, increased rates of depression and anxiety, and high economic burden to society and the individual. Current behavioral interventions, which target well-known symptom exacerbating factors such as catastrophizing and gastrointestinal- specific anxiety, have demonstrated...
- Keyword:
- health psychology, IBS, Irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive flexibility, and psychological flexibility
- Subject:
- Health sciences and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bedell, Alyse R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14699 and etdadmin_upload_666937
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- Description:
- “Love’s Limits: In Persian Poetry and Film” explores the unbounded, unruly, anarchic, border-traversing potential of love through the works of Iranian poets and filmmakers spanning a millennium. In each of the works examined in this study, love precipitates a crisis in relation to a different set of questions or problems...
- Subject:
- Comparative literature
- Creator:
- Gabri, Richard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14440 and etdadmin_upload_625699
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- Description:
- Affect infusion occurs when feelings elicited by one stimulus (an affect-laden cue) influence reactions to a different stimulus (an attitude object). This effect often happens when the two stimuli are experienced closely in time and space. According to Gestalt principles, a spatial/temporal covariation of the two stimuli can make them...
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Fan, Xiaomeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14616 and etdadmin_upload_661870
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- Description:
- Individuals within a species vary in complex phenotypes, such as responses to toxins. This drug-response variation causes patients who are treated with the same medicine to experience a range of side effects, ultimately decreasing the efficacy of some drugs. Particular genetic variants among individuals might contribute to differential drug responses,...
- Keyword:
- genetics, bleomycin, linkage mapping, natural variation, drug response, and C. elegans
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Brady, Shannon Colleen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14708 and etdadmin_upload_667842
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- Description:
- “Speculative Justice” asks how U.S. terrorism cases with numerous indicators of entrapment prevail in federal court despite case law designed to prevent these very policing practices. Drawing on a combination of two case studies, an original archive of digital court filings from over 250 defendants, and a collection of over...
- Keyword:
- entrapment, narrative, culture, preventative policing, terrorism, and law
- Subject:
- Criminology and Sociology
- Creator:
- Degenshein, Anya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685823 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14816
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- Description:
- The advent of next-generation sequencing technologies has greatly promoted the devel- opment of metagenomics, and the analysis of compositional dataset has a wide range of application in this area. Because of the constraint that the sum of species relative abun- dance being 1, many traditional and classical statistical methods cannot...
- Keyword:
- stability selection, penalized regression, metagenomimcs, subgroup identification, and compositional data
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Wang, Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_638478 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14510
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- Description:
- Annual age-adjusted breast cancer incidence rates in the United States have been static for decades. More recently, the development of massively parallel, high throughput DNA sequencing has enabled the cataloging of somatic mutations in cancer. Mutations are non-random and occur within sequence motifs. These motifs provide us with evidence to...
- Keyword:
- Natural Language Processing, Electronic Health Records, Genomics, Mutational Processes, Breast Cancer, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Bioinformatics and Computer science
- Creator:
- Zeng, Zexian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14500 and etdadmin_upload_635668
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- Description:
- Currently, platelet transfusions, possessing profound clinical importance in the clotting of blood and healing of wounds, are entirely derived from human volunteer donors. This approach is limited by a 5-day shelf life, the potential risk of contamination, and differences in donor/recipient immunology. In vivo, platelets are formed when bone marrow...
- Keyword:
- Applied sciences, Biological sciences, Megakaryocyte, Cell therapies, Computational fluid dynamics, and Microfluidic bioreactor
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemical engineering, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Martinez, Andres Felipe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_657405 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14571