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- At the heart of nonlinear optimization methods lies the solution of linear systems of equations. As the size of the problem increases, it is imperative to use iterative methods, such as the conjugate gradient algorithm, to solve these linear systems. In the context of constrained optimization, it has proved to...
- Keyword:
- preconditioning, interior point method, strategic bidding, nonlinear optimization, and bilevel programming
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Long Hei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Entangled photons serve as an important tool in the field of quantum information processing. Traditionally, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in second-order nonlinear crystals has been the workhorse source for generating entangled photons. However, those SPDC-generated photons are notoriously difficult to couple into single-mode optical fibers due to mode mismatch, thus...
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- quantum computation, quantum splitter, coincidence, quantum communication, entanglement, and nonlinear fiber optics
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jun Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In "Optimal Delegation" I analyze the design of decision rules by a principal who faces an informed but biased agent and who is unable to commit to contingent transfers. The contracting problem reduces to a delegation problem in which the principal commits to a set of decisions from which the...
- Keyword:
- delegation, decision rights, cheap talk, incomplete contracts, and authority
- Subject:
- Kellogg School of Management
- Creator:
- Ricardo Alonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines topical humor produced by "Late Night with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Saturday Night Live," and The Onion for the period of one year after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Three phases emerge: the purgation of extreme emotions like anger, acceptance or...
- Keyword:
- Speech Communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Ann Benacka
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis is devoted to the study of A-branes on symplectic tori and to the Mirror Symmetry conjecture. Using a method called Seidel's mirror map, we are able to reconstruct the homogeneous coordinate ring of a complex abelian variety using Lagrangian intersection theory on the mirror symplectic torus. Moreover, we...
- Keyword:
- Mirror Symmertry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Marco Aldi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In composite manufacturing, Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) is becoming increasingly important as a cost effective manufacturing method of structural composites. In this process the dry preform (reinforcement) is placed on a rigid tool and covered by a flexible film to form an airtight vacuum bag. Liquid resin is...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Material
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- John M Bayldon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation presents a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) study of anisotropic superconductors, MgB$_2$ and Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi2212), and diffusion in glass-forming aqueous solutions of glycerol. In glycerol and deuterated water mixtures, the diffusion of glycerol is measured selectively by the $^1$H NMR stimulated echo technique in the gradient field of a...
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- Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Bo Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Mechanisms of Bladder Barrier Dysfunction during Neurogenic Cystitis: the Role of TNF and Mast Cells
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- The primary function of the human urinary bladder is to store urine, while maintaining a permeability barrier that protects underlying tissues from noxious urinary components. Inflammatory diseases of the bladder, including urinary tract infection (UTI) and interstitial cystitis (IC), afflict millions of patients in the US annually and cause significant...
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- Physiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael C Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- High relaxivity contrast agents are of great importance in the advancement of magnetic resonance imaging diagnostics for use in biomaterials. Biomaterials that are implanted into the body, with the goal of repairing or regenerating lost or damaged tissue, need to be tracked noninvasively, over time. I have completed work using...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, dumbbell, peptide amphiphile, templation, and MRI
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Steve Bull
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the selective visualization of blood vessels via the intravascular injection of a paramagnetic contrast agent and the suppression of background signal. Called magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), this technique can produce three-dimensional images and is useful clinically for the noninvasive diagnosis of vascular disorders. In...
- Keyword:
- magnetic resonance, angiography, and medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Ty Cashen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- What can the theatrical use of food accomplish in performances which assert cultural, legal, or moral rights to food production and consumption in a food insecure society? Case studies comprising the USDA's 1933-34 World's Fair exhibits, the May 1933 Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool protest, the 1936 Federal Theatre Project living...
- Keyword:
- History and United States
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Ann Eleanor Folino White
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- "Prufrock" to <em>The Waste Land</em>: T. S. Eliot's Periodical Publications, 1915-1922 Randall J. Woods This dissertation presents, in publication date order, the 167 articles published by T. S. Eliot from 1915 to 1922, most of which have never been reprinted. They include literary criticism, book reviews, poetry, philosophical essays, humorous...
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- The Waste Land, Georgian Poetry, Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, and J. C. Squire
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Randall J. Woods
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I study several aspects of a game-theoretic model of persuasion. A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to take an action which is highly ranked by the speaker. The listener knows the speaker's preference but is uncertain about what the speaker can say. The listener can commit to a persuasion...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Itai Sher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is an aphasic dementia syndrome caused by neurodegenerative disease in which linguistic abilities are selectively disrupted in the relative absence of other cognitive deficits in early stages. The studies presented in this thesis were designed to examine the integrity of word and object processing by contrasting...
- Keyword:
- Dementia, Pictures, Recognition Memory, Frontotemporal Dementia, Words, and Priming
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Emily Joy Rogalski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chinese television has gone through enormous growth and significant structural change since the economic reforms of the 1970s. The changes include an increased number of channels, the establishment of overseas channels, increased reliance on advertising, more diversified programming, and heightened market competition. The new multi-channel media environment has the potential...
- Keyword:
- Communication Studies
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elaine Yuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Small area estimation (SAE) has been one of the most active areas in survey methodology research, due to the increasing demand for small area statistics from government agencies and the private sector. But in some areas of interest, sample sizes could be very small, or even zero, in which case,...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Haoliang Song
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Commercially available electrically powered prosthetic elbows are stiff and unyielding. Making these artificial limb replacements more closely mimic human elbows by increasing their compliance may be beneficial. In addition to having increased compliance compared with current electrically powered prosthetic elbows, humans modulate the overall impedance of their joints. The author...
- Keyword:
- prosthesis, Series Elastic Actuator, Impedance Control, and prosthetics
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jonathon Wilbur Sensinger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An understanding of how two people anticipate, adapt, and react to each other's forces and motions could aid in designing machines to work cooperatively with humans and further explain how a single human interacts with the world. Tasks, such as lifting and moving a bulky object, teaching manual skills, dancing,...
- Keyword:
- physical cooperation, interaction, human-human, and human-robot
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kyle Brandon Reed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The present dissertation includes my research on modeling financial market returns and volatility on high frequency data. It consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces a novel high-frequency volatility estimator based on large price moves, which constitutes a generalization of the standard range. An asymptotic theory is developed in...
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- Normality Tests, Jump Detection, Generalized Range, Realized Volatility, Jump-Diffusion Processes, and High-Frequency Data
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Dobrislav Dobrev
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Information processing in the striatum is crucial for voluntary movement control and associative learning and in the normal condition is subject to balanced dopaminergic and cholinergic modulation. However, in Parkinson's disease (PD) striatal dopamine (DA) level falls because of degeneration of DA neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jun Ding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the ways in which poetry encourages visual images in the reader. This investigation breaks new ground, for in the wake of behaviorist psychology and the linguistic turn in literary theory, literary critics have ignored and often spurned the visual imagination. The project uses Imagist poetry as a...
- Keyword:
- English
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Daniel Wallace Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explains why some rebel groups act in a highly coercive fashion toward local populations, only to shift to increasingly contractual behavior, and why other groups that share similar circumstances evolve in the opposite direction. Drawing upon fieldwork in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, and Colombia, this study examines three rebel...
- Keyword:
- resources, war, insurgents, conflict, rebels, and violence
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Claire Margaret Metelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Social networks play an important role in the labor market. Various surveys document that 30-60% of jobs are found through friends or relatives. To better understand how networks operate in the labor market, I examine how networks that were formed involuntarily as a result of the American Civil War and...
- Keyword:
- Employment, First World War Veterans, Identification, Social Interactions, Civil War Veterans, and Multiple Reference Groups
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Ron Laschever
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze, using standard formal imperfect competition models from the literature, two central public policy issues in the deregulated wholesale electricity markets. The first issue is the regulatory rules around generator ownership of transmission companies or transmission rights in general. The second issue we look into is...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Serhan Ogur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor
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- In mammalian development, cell specification and organogenesis are achieved by the regulated expression and repression of specific subsets of genes. The anterior pituitary gland, comprised of five cell types that arise from a common precursor, is an excellent model system for understanding these developmental processes. Examination of factors regulating transcription...
- Keyword:
- Gene Regulation, Pituitary Development, and Alternative Splicing
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Allison Therese MvElvaine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent work exploring children's verb learning in the laboratory has generated some interesting contradictions. Some studies have found that children as old as 4 years old are unable to reliably map a novel verb to an action (e.g., Kersten & Smith, 2002; Imai, Haryu, & Okada, 2005), even though much...
- Keyword:
- cross-situational learning, contrast, verb learning, language acquisition, and early word learning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Thomas B Piccin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The study of III-Nitride based optoelectronics devices is a maturing field, but there are still many underdeveloped areas in which to make a contribution of new and original research. This work specifically targets the goals of realizing high-efficiency back-illuminated solar-blind photodetectors, solar-blind focal plane arrays, and visible- and solar-blind Avalanche...
- Keyword:
- APD, photodetector, Ultraviolet, avalanche, AlGaN, and FPA
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ryan P. McClintock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We compute Lawson homology groups and semi-topological K-theory for certain "degenerate" varieties. "Degenerate" varieties are those smooth complex projective varieties whose zero cycles are supported on a proper subvariety. Rationally connected varieties are examples of such varieties. Our main method of study makes use of a technique of Bloch and...
- Keyword:
- algebraic cycles, semi-topological K-theory, and Lawson homology
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Mircea Alexandru Voineagu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Autoxidation is a primary route by which lubricants in working conditions undergo degradation. Degraded lubricants, if not replaced periodically, contribute to increased wear and product failure. Experimental studies of lubricant degradation have yielded useful results but have left important questions unanswered. While many computational studies of degradation have been carried...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jim Pfaendtner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substrate-mediated delivery involves the immobilization of DNA, complexed with nonviral vectors, to a biomaterial or surface that supports cell adhesion. Cells cultured on the substrate are exposed to elevated DNA concentrations within the local microenvironment, which enhances transfection. As surface properties are critical to this delivery approach, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Angela Kaye Pannier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Wave propagation at the bottom of the electromagnetic spectrum (below 300 kHz) in the Earth-ionosphere system is a problem having a rich history of theoretical investigation extending over many decades. Propagation within this system involves complex interactions of electromagnetic waves with the lithosphere, oceans, and ionosphere, leading to resonances that...
- Keyword:
- remote-sensing, extremely low-frequency (ELF), earthquake precursors, electromagnetic wave propagation, lightning, and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jamesina Jean Simpson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Should the government subsidize entry to promote competition? In theory, free entry does not guarantee the socially optimum number of entrants. In differentiated product markets, free entry can result either in excessive or insufficient entry. Quantifying this inefficiency and identifying the optimal subsidy level require an empirical framework that combines...
- Keyword:
- Entry, Simulation Method, Medicare HMO, Welfare Analysis, and GHK Simulator
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Shiko Maruyama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Lydia Sigourney, female authorship, feminism , Cult of True Womanhood , Karli Goldenberg , and Illustrated Poems
- Creator:
- Karli Goldenberg
- Owner:
- Karli Jordan Goldenberg
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2018
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the organizing local approach to labor renewal, a union model centered on organizing new workers. I examine the role of activists and what motivates them to participate beyond a rational evaluation of gains. Additionally, I establish the conditions for successful union reform, specifically, how to overcome inertial...
- Keyword:
- organizing local, structural change, reciprocity, labor revitalization, and union activism
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Laura Ariovich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The motion of thin drops under the effects of surfactants and gravity is studied. First, the effects of surfactant and temperature on the spreading of a viscous droplet are considered. Lubrication theory is used to develop a two-dimensional model for the evolution of the droplet. The surfactant is assumed to...
- Keyword:
- contact line, Marangoni, and capillary
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Matthew Allen Clay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this dissertation was to examine the influence of motivational incentives on visual spatial attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease (PRAD), patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy age-matched control subjects (EC). Specifically, I compared the ability of monetary incentives to influence behavioral and neural performance...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Lisa Bagurdes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I examine horizontally differentiated firms in three different contexts. First, I look at an industry where firms can develop self-customizable products -- products which appeal to different consumers for different reasons. This addition results in an unexpected conclusion that sometimes more differentiated firms can end up with lower profits than...
- Keyword:
- two-sided markets, horizontal differentiation, reservations, intermediaries, spatial models, and self-customization
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Alexei Alexandrov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ceramic matrix composites are known for their low density, high strength and high stiffness, but lower fracture toughness compared to metal matrix composites. The addition of a reinforcing agent within the matrix can increase the toughness of the composite via many strain energy absorption mechanisms such as plastic deformation. This...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nasim Alem
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this study was to investigate the properties of the retinal ganglion cell receptive field at low light levels. There has been considerable interest in whether the surround of a ganglion cell receptive field disappears and the center expands in size under scotopic conditions. The previous data from...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Resources
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jie Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Modeling and simulation at different scales were used to study mass transport, residence times and selective oxidation in nanostructured membranes. First, analytical equations of the possible mass transport mechanisms inside the pores were used to determine that diffusion dominates over convection under the conditions of interest for selective oxidation: 700...
- Keyword:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Simon E Albo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this dissertation study was to build on scholarly work in the area of critical mathematics by such scholars as Gutstein (2003) and Gutierrez (2002). Critical pedagogy is designed to foster political agency and critical consciousness in students (Freire, 1971). That is the aim of critical mathematics in...
- Keyword:
- Teacher Beliefs, Discourse Analysis, Curriculum Analysis, Urban Education, Practitioner Research, and Critical Mathematics
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Andrew Morgan Brantliger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The abundance and breadth of condition data generated by advanced inspection technologies have increased the frequency and accuracy of data collection, which is not exploited by the existing performance models. Moreover, simultaneity of deterioration and maintenance causes difficulty of estimating effectiveness of maintenance activities for existing performance models. To address...
- Keyword:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Chih-Yuan Chu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The optical and magneto-optical properties of the ferromagnetic semiconductors, InMnAs and its alloy InMnAsP were investigated to determine the band structure and nature of the ferromagnetism in these materials. Alloys were grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. Infrared absorption of InMnAs was investigated to determine the presence and properties of...
- Keyword:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Phillip Tang Chiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Experimental and numerical studies of lasing in multiple light scattering media with gain are presented in this thesis. Depending on the dielectric constant spatial distribution is random or periodic, two different kinds of lasers are discussed: the random laser and the photonic crystal laser. This thesis, therefore, is divided into...
- Keyword:
- Optics and Physics
- Creator:
- Xiaohua Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spectral elements are p-type element which can provide better accuracy and faster convergence. However, applications of these elements make conformation to discontinuities in the function or its derivative difficult. The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) recently developed at Northwestern University can easily treat the arbitrarily aligned discontinuities, i.e. independent of...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hongwu Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Two-year colleges are a critical site for the expansion of educational opportunity in the United States. They enroll nearly half of all postsecondary students and are a gateway to higher education for low-income, non-traditional, racial and ethnic minority, and first-generation college students. Degree completion rates in the two-year sector are...
- Keyword:
- college advising, information and signalling, school-to-work, proprietary colleges, and occupational education
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Ann Elizabeth Person
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) initially present with metastases, but little is known about the regulation of ovarian tumor cell dissemination by the tumor microenvironment. Because ovarian cancer cell dissemination is mostly limited to the peritoneal cavity and often results in the accumulation of malignant ascites, the...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Cell
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jaime Symowicz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Arsenic trioxide (As<sub>2</sub>0<sub>3</sub>) is an arsenic-derivative that exhibits potent growth inhibitory effects against malignant cells. The remarkable antitumor effects of As<sub>2</sub>0<sub>3</sub> in vitro and in vivo have prompted the development of various clinical trials that established its activity in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). As<sub>2</sub>0<sub>3</sub> is part of the standard treatment...
- Keyword:
- Biology, Cell, and Health Sciences
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Patrick Jang Yoon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented here represents a series of research projects that are unified in their goal: to use volume holographic gratings to enhance traditional signal processing applications in ways that would otherwise not be possible. To this end, we have completed work that can be classified into four different projects....
- Keyword:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- John Thomas Shen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Three critical problem areas pertinent to the development of precision high-speed spindles for meso-scale machine tools (mMTs), driven by air turbines, constitute the focus of this work. These are the development of the spindle, of a new tool clamping device, and of a measurement system for spindle error motions. For...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hankyu Sung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-02-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation