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- Keyword:
- Hearing Aid and Memory
- Subject:
- Hearing Aids
- Creator:
- Arehart, Kathryn, Souza, Pamela, and Neher, Tobias
- Depositor:
- Geoffrey Welles Morse
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/13/2017
- Date Created:
- 2015-12=16
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01894
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- Keyword:
- agenda
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2019
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- Description:
- A replication crisis has enveloped several scientific fields since the early 2000s (see Baker, 2016). This has given rise to improved research and reporting practices (e.g., F. S. Collins & Tabak, 2014), as well as a cottage industry of research into issues of replication and reproducibility (e.g., R. A. Klein...
- Keyword:
- Replication, Experimental Design, Statistics, Heterogeneity, and Meta-analysis
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Schauer, Jacob
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14385 and etdadmin_upload_613798
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- Description:
- Quantum metrology has been among the most vigorous branches of quantum technology. It involves using quantum effects to achieve better estimation of parameters of a physical sys- tem. Conventionally the system consists of an ensemble of N non-interacting atoms and the measurements are done on individual atomic states, such as...
- Keyword:
- Heisenberg limit, Schroedinger cat state, Atomic interferometer, Spin squeezing, Quantum metrology, and Sagnac effect
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Fang, Renpeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14386 and etdadmin_upload_613863
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- Description:
- Reducing the high incidence of metabolic syndrome especially among older people living in low income communities is a goal of the health system. Residents of the Austin community of Chicago suffer from a heavy burden of health issues related to metabolic syndrome leading to disproportionally higher morbidity and mortality rates...
- Keyword:
- Cross-Sector Collaboration, Reducing Health Disparities, Applied Medical Anthropology, Asset-Based Community Development, Metabolic Syndrom, and Hypertension
- Subject:
- Cultural anthropology, Health care management, and Health sciences
- Creator:
- Diamond, Michael W.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14387 and etdadmin_upload_613946
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- Description:
- This thesis describes a series of fundamental studies that address the role of electrostatic interactions in modulating i) the permeability of the ligand shell of a colloidal quantum dot (QD) to an anionic redox probe; ii) the resulting yield of photoinduced electron exchange within the QD ‒ redox probe complex;...
- Keyword:
- electrostatic interactions, quantum dots, optical spectroscopy, and surface chemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Nanoscience, and Physical chemistry
- Creator:
- He, Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_613994 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14389
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- Description:
- Though cognitive behavioral techniques are generally effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, some people fail to benefit from exposure therapy or experience a return of fear after terminating exposure therapy. The burgeoning field of non-invasive brain stimulation provides a potential method of augmenting exposure therapy so that it is...
- Keyword:
- Brain stimulation, Anxiety, Exposure Therapy, and Retrieval Inhibition
- Subject:
- Psychobiology, Therapy, and Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Nuñez, Mia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14383 and etdadmin_upload_612895
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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:
- Carbon Dioxide, Radical Anions, Naphthalene Diimide, Perylene Diimide, Mn(bpy)(CO)3, and Re(bpy)(CO)3
- 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
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14388 and etdadmin_upload_613990
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- Description:
- The invention of GdIII-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probes substantially expanded the capability of MRI in visualizing details in tissue. Building upon the achievement of GdIII-based complexes, more ideal probes should feature contrast that is responsive to biomarkers, such as redox status and ion concentrations. The abnormality of these biomarkers...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry, Responsive probes, MRI contrast agents, Paramagnetic NMR, Bioinorganic Chemistry, and PARACEST
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Du, Kang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_615839 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14394
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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:
- Biochemistry and Bioengineering
- Creator:
- Stine, Andrew Eugene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14393 and etdadmin_upload_614431
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- Description:
- Promyelocytic leukemia (PML) nuclear bodies act as quality control centers in the nucleus, participating in a plethora of nuclear functions. As such, PML bodies are a signature model for functional nuclear organization. PML bodies have a dynamic protein composition that responds to changing conditions of the cell. Many of the...
- Keyword:
- PML, nuclear organization, no-go decay, mRNA surveillence, Ataxin-1, and stress
- Subject:
- Molecular biology and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Fanslow, Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_614059 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14390
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- Description:
- Biped robots utilize varying contact conditions and collision between their hands and feet and the walking and climbing surfaces in their environment to navigate their surroundings. This thesis presents a method for generating a continuum of gaits in a unified and extensible framework for physically-symmetric bipeds (bipeds with left and...
- Keyword:
- Motion Templates, Continuation Methods, Equilibria, Bipeds, and Gait Generation
- Subject:
- Robotics
- Creator:
- Rosa, Nelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_616070 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14396
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- Description:
- A fundamental goal in biology is to understand how distinct cell types containing the same genetic information arise from a single stem cell throughout development. Sex determination is a key developmental process that requires a unidirectional commitment of an initially bipotential gonad towards either the male or female fate. This...
- Keyword:
- bivalent chromatin, sex determination, sex reversal, CBX2, enhancers, and chromatin
- Subject:
- Developmental biology
- Creator:
- Garcia-Moreno, Sara A. Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_616325 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14397
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- Description:
- Rhythmic fluctuations of electrical activity in the brain provide insights into the proposed mechanism by which we encode experiences and then maintain, forget, modify, and retrieve them. Yet there is still much to learn about how neural oscillations relate to memory function. The purpose of this research is to discover...
- Keyword:
- EEG, Sleep, Consolidation, Reactivation, Memory, and Oscillation
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Creery, Jessica Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_615973 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14395
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- Description:
- T cells and cancer cells have many common features, including their need to proliferate and their metabolic requirements. In particular, glucose metabolism is highly upregulated in both cancer cells and T cells to support proliferation and other cellular functions. The first step of glycolysis is catalyzed by Hexokinase, which exists...
- Keyword:
- Hexokinase 2 and T Cell
- Subject:
- Immunology and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Mehta, Manan M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_616623 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14398
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- Description:
- Ultrafine particles are often used as lubricant additives because they can enter tribological contacts to reduce friction and protect surfaces from wear. They tend to be more stable than molecular additives under high thermal and mechanical stresses during rubbing. However, in lubricant oil, ultrafine particles tend to aggregate together to...
- Keyword:
- Librication, Graphene, and Tribology
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Dou, Xuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14400 and etdadmin_upload_616912
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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:
- Satisfaction, Predictive Analytics, Markov Decision Process, Service Operations, and Wait-time
- Subject:
- Operations research and Industrial engineering
- Creator:
- Ansari, Sina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14402 and etdadmin_upload_617413
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- Description:
- Liquid helium-3 is a remarkable substance. Even prior to the discovery of superfluidity in 1972, liquid helium-3 was the paradigm of a strongly interacting Fermi liquid. At even lower temperatures, liquid helium-3 undergoes a phase transition to a p-wave Fermi superfluid. Over 40 years since its discovery, superfluid helium-3 is...
- Subject:
- Statistical physics, Computational physics, and Condensed matter physics
- Creator:
- Wiman, Joshua John
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_616638 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14399
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines three distinct empirical questions in macroeconomics and finance. Chapter 1 studies the reasons why households file for bankruptcy. The debt relief households obtain in bankruptcy provides insurance against wealth losses, but also distorts borrower incentives to repay debt, discouraging lending. Understanding how bankruptcy filings respond to changes...
- Subject:
- Finance and Economics
- Creator:
- Indarte, Alexandra Scarlett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14631
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- Description:
- The term blowback originated from the American intelligence community to indicate the unexpected consequences of American foreign policy. In my dissertation, I give an account of how blowback results from these security policies. Blowback shows the cases that security policies create more harm than good to the enacting country due...
- Keyword:
- Unintended Consequences, Performance, Policy Implementation, Security, Script, and Ambiguity
- Subject:
- International relations
- Creator:
- Kang, Hye Yun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14637
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three papers studying applied microeconomics and economic history. The chapters are broadly organized around two different topics: the political effects of media and the consequences of disruption to human capital. In the first chapter, joint with Susan Ou, we study the role of media in the...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xiong, Heyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14638 and etdadmin_upload_662403
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- Description:
- The Brink-Schwarz superparticle is a one-dimensional analogue of the Green-Schwarz superstring. In this thesis, we use the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism to study the superparticle. After proving a vanishing result for its Batalin-Vilkovisky cohomology, we explain the sense in which the superparticle exhibits general covariance in the world-line. Using techniques from rational...
- Keyword:
- supersymmetry, quantization, gauge theory, superstring, and covariance
- Subject:
- Theoretical physics and Mathematics
- Creator:
- Pohorence, Sean Weinz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14639 and etdadmin_upload_662424
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- Description:
- In the first chapter I introduce the ideas that link selling information to surplus extraction. In my environment the seller may be uncertain about how much the buyer both has already learned before contracting with the seller (belief types) and is able to learn after contracting with the seller (information...
- Keyword:
- Full Surplus Extraction, Screening, Selling Information, and Mechanism Design
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Mishara-Blomberger, Jonas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14641 and etdadmin_upload_662459
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- Description:
- Children are known to be curious and persistent question-askers. The pervasiveness of voice interfaces represents an opportunity for children who are still learning to read and write to independently search the Internet by directing questions at conversational agents such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and the Google Assistant. However, little...
- Keyword:
- question-asking, voice assistants, conversational agents, and children
- Subject:
- Communication, Developmental psychology, and Information science
- Creator:
- Lovato, Silvia B
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662479 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14643
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- Description:
- Valence-to-core (vtc) x-ray emission spectra (XES) provides direct information on occupied valence orbitals and is sensitive to chemical environment. Combining with element specificity and high penetration of hard x-rays, it is emerging as an information-rich technique and its applications have been demonstrated in research fields, such as catalysis and metalloenzymes....
- Keyword:
- x-ray emission spectroscopy, valence to core, compound refractive lenses, spin crossover, laser-pump/x-ray-probe, and pink beam
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Tu, Ming-Feng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14640 and etdadmin_upload_662434
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- Description:
- Mortgage brokers originate a large share of residential real estate lending. Exploiting state-level regulatory changes to local entry costs I am able to study the effect on credit quality and access. Using data from a major mortgage lender in the run up to the financial crisis I study how the...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Stephenson, Harvey Hugh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14642 and etdadmin_upload_662464
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- Description:
- This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...
- Keyword:
- Senegal, Sexuality, Contemporary dance, Gender, Germaine Acogny, and Performance studies
- Subject:
- African studies, Gender studies, and Dance
- Creator:
- Swanson, Amy Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644 and etdadmin_upload_662490
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a wide-ranging study on real estate and the effect of financial constraints on economic activity. In the first chapter, I use granular data on home builder housing developments to provide new evidence that firms spread negative revenue shocks across projects via their internal capital markets. I analyze...
- Keyword:
- Housing, Real Estate, Financial Constraints, and Corporate Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- van Straelen, Eileen Driscoll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14646 and etdadmin_upload_662556
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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:
- latent class, recursive partitioning, interaction, latent trajectory analysis, personalized medicine, and precision 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
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662625 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14649
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- Description:
- Although Jewish studies, sociology, and performance studies texts abound with productive scholarship on Jewish men and their contributions to comedy in the mid-century United States, there is remarkably scant attention devoted to the equally significant contributions of their female counterparts. Nowhere is that bias clearer than the peculiar case of...
- Keyword:
- Performance, Assimilation, Gender, Stand-up, Comedy, and Jewishness
- Subject:
- American studies, Theater history, and Judaic studies
- Creator:
- Overbeke, Grace Kessler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14648 and etdadmin_upload_662614
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- Description:
- In this thesis we present methods for estimating network metrics via random walk sampling. More specifically, we generalize the Hansen-Hurwitz estimator and the Horvitz-Thompson estimator to estimate the shortest path length distribution (SPLD), closeness centrality ranking, and clustering coefficients of a network. Those are important metrics to a network, but...
- Keyword:
- random walk, network, sampling, shortest path length, clustering coefficient, and closeness centrality
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Zheng, Minhui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14650 and etdadmin_upload_662638
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...
- Keyword:
- Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Financial Crises, Mortgages, and Voting
- Subject:
- Finance, Political science, and Economics
- Creator:
- van Straelen, Hendrik Philip
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651
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- Description:
- In knowledge-intensive work such as data analysis or emergency medicine, learning and collaboration is integral to the effective “production” process. Uncovering the mechanisms, benefits and costs of learning and collaboration is crucial for the design and operation of a successful process. My Ph.D. research centers on empirically investigating the ways...
- Keyword:
- Learning from peers, Learning by doing, Emergency department, Collaboration, Data analysts, and Productivity
- Subject:
- Behavioral sciences
- Creator:
- Yin, Yue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686252 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14832
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- Description:
- Responsiveness -- the time it takes for a message recipient to respond to a message -- has long been of interest to scholars in the fields of computer-mediated communication and human-computer interaction. It has been hypothesized that responsiveness is used to signal emotional information, and many empirical studies have demonstrated...
- Subject:
- Communication, Computer science, and Information science
- Creator:
- Heston, Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14416 and etdadmin_upload_618506
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- Description:
- The concealed information test (CIT) has garnered more empirical support than other methods of recognition detection and has a firm theoretical foundation. Because it occurs involuntarily, even when recognition is denied, P300 amplitude is a robust indictor of concealed information. Although the P300-based CIT shows great promise for field use,...
- Keyword:
- P300-based concealed information test, complex trial protocol, bootstrapping, retroactive interference, and concealed information test
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ward, Anne Cable
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14417 and etdadmin_upload_619142
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the dance makerspace, a learning environment designed to support STEM engagement through making and embodied experience for a group of African American youth dancers. It looks at how participants in a 4-week summer camp program at an urban creative arts center-turned-makerspace, constructed embodied...
- Keyword:
- Dance, Makerspace, STEAM, STEM, Embodied Cognition, and Embodiment
- Subject:
- Dance and Science education
- Creator:
- Champion, Dionne Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_619548 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14418
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- Description:
- Soft materials such as colloids and polymers often exhibit a variety of mesoscopic structures that are governed merely by weak physical interactions. Due to these intermediate structures, they can be easily taken out of thermal equilibrium by introducing external stimuli such as a shear flow and electromagnetic fields. This thesis...
- Keyword:
- Coarse-grained simulations, Nonequilibrium dynamics, Phase transition, Machine Learning, Soft matter, and Self-assembly
- Subject:
- Statistical physics, Computational physics, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Han, Ming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_618073 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14411
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- Description:
- The start of the 21st century brought the sweeping proliferation of portable electronics such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones. These technologies were largely enabled by advances in energy storage methods – lithium ion batteries in particular. Society's push for more advanced energy storage applications, such as electric vehicles, stresses the...
- Keyword:
- transmission electron microscopy, intercalation electrode, electron energy loss spectroscopy, conversion reaction, and lithium ion battery
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Castro, Fernando Cuauhtli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14419 and etdadmin_upload_621102
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- Description:
- Optical interferometers and resonators are commonly used for precision measurement. These devices can accurately measure the phase shifts of light induced by small changes in the optical path in the device. To meet the need for ultra-sensitive measurement, researchers have developed various approaches to build better and more sensitive devices....
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Zhou, Minchuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14491 and etdadmin_upload_633848
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- Description:
- In this thesis, the optical gain mechanism in low-light conditions of phototransistor detectors (PTDs) is explored. An analytical formula is derived for the physical limit on the minimum number of detectable photons for PTDs. This formulation shows that the sensitivity of the PTD, regardless of its material composition, is related...
- Keyword:
- Short wave infrared, Low-Dimensional photodetectors, Phototransistor, Photodetector, InGaAs, and Infrared Camera
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering and Applied physics
- Creator:
- Rezaei, Mohsen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14502 and etdadmin_upload_636639
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- Description:
- Knee injury causes a loss of stability in the joint and frequently leads to secondary degeneration of the cartilage in the months and years after injury, which can further impair joint function and cause pain and disability. Moreover, the secondary damage to the joint appears to be worse for females...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering
- Creator:
- Powell, Bethany
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_636837 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14504
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- Description:
- Inflammasomes are signaling complexes that link the recognition of pathogen and danger associated molecular patterns (PAMPs and DAMPs) by cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors (PPRs) to the activation of Caspase-1, leading to the release of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-18, and the induction of pyroptosis. In addition to the canonical...
- Keyword:
- Non-canonical inflammasome, Caspase-11, oxPAPC, and Sepsis
- Subject:
- Immunology
- Creator:
- Chu, Lan Hoang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14507 and etdadmin_upload_638156
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- Description:
- Millions of years of evolution have produced fascinating biological materials and structures that are optimized to perform a wide spectrum of functions essential for the survival of organisms. These biological materials have been intensively studied in order to decipher the intricate interplay between their superior material properties and structural design...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering and Mechanics
- Creator:
- Zaheri, Alireza
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14505 and etdadmin_upload_636841
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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:
- compositional data, penalized regression, stability selection, subgroup identification, and metagenomimcs
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Wang, Pan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_638478 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14510
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- Description:
- Epigenetics is the study of chromatin-based events that regulate gene expression without the change of DNA sequence, including DNA methylation, histone modification and chromatin remodeling. Epigenetic regulators are encoded to modify chromatin in a highly regulated and dynamic manner. A growing number of studies have suggested the dysregulation of epigenetic...
- Keyword:
- Protein interaction, Histone methylation, Proteomics, Mass spectrometry, Biological sciences, and Epigenetics
- Subject:
- Analytical chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Huang, Xiaoxiao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14838 and etdadmin_upload_686355
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- Description:
- The US yogurt market has been volatile in the last decade, marked by striking sales increases and dramatic market structure changes. According to an industry report, dollar sales of yogurt in 2017 reached $8.8 billion---a more than 80% increase from 2007. Such remarkable sales growth can be attributed to the...
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Liu, Caiyun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14836 and etdadmin_upload_686301
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- Description:
- In multiatomic systems, high applied pressures reduce interatomic contact distances. At pressures comparable to those inside planets, this relatively simple principle completely changes the guiding principles of chemistry and physics established at near-ambient conditions. High-pressure investigations of precisely how the laws of nature evolve in the gigapascal and megabar regime...
- Keyword:
- High Pressure, Synthesis, Mineral Physics, BiVO3, Magnetism, and Jarosite
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Creator:
- Klein, Ryan Alexander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686360 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14839
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Embedding a Randomized Experiment Within a Regression Discontinuity Design: A Meta-Analytic Approach
- Description:
- Randomization is considered the gold standard when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, primarily due to its ability to avoid bias. However, in recent years, randomization has been heavily criticized in circumstances where subject randomization may not be ethical. In a randomized controlled trial, patients who are extremely...
- Keyword:
- Randomized Experiment, Meta-Analysis, and Regression Discontinuity Design
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Hong, Mindy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14841 and etdadmin_upload_686415
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about three of Cicero’s notable projects in ideal theory in his middle and late periods (between roughly 54-43 BCE). It comes during a resurgence in interest in Cicero’s contributions as a philosopher. First, I discuss Cicero’s philosophical account of vera gloria (true glory) in contradistinction to mere...
- Keyword:
- Cicero, Plato, Glory, Ideal theory, Utopia, and Retrospective
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Classical studies
- Creator:
- Dutmer, Evan Robert William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14843 and etdadmin_upload_686428
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- Description:
- Citizen media literacy is essential in a democratic society, particularly in the online environment where valid media sources have proliferated alongside purveyors of fake news. This dissertation explores technologies that automatically detect aspects of bias in news articles, with the ultimate aim of leveraging them to augment media literacy. It...
- Keyword:
- Computational journalism, Media bias, Artificial intelligence, Framing, Media literacy, and Natural language processing
- Subject:
- Journalism, Communication, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Boon, Miriam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686483 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14845