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- Keyword:
- perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs, drinking water, water insecurity, and harm
- Creator:
- Sera L. Young and Joshua D. Miller
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-07
- Resource Type:
- Software or Program Code
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- Keyword:
- civil rights, abolition, critical race theory, rule of law, and constitutional law
- Creator:
- Paul Gowder
- Owner:
- Paul Anthony Gowder
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/17/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2021
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- Description:
- This thesis discussed how motifs of height and depth in Black literature highlight Black characters’ inability to form positive racial identities. The thesis uses three canonical pieces of Black literature, Passing, Native Son, and Plum Bun, to demonstrate that Black characters who try to reimagine White space are forced into...
- Keyword:
- literature
- Creator:
- Stovall, Jessica Lee
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/09/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/09/2021
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Keyword:
- Major American Author and James Baldwin
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/05/2021
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- Keyword:
- Care Home, Memory Loss, and Fiction
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2021
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- Keyword:
- Inter-Rater Reliablity, Statistical Analyses, Cohen's Kappa Coefficient, Cognitive Dissonance, Policy, Title IX, Sexual Assault, and Clery Act
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2021
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- Keyword:
- haptics
- Creator:
- Roman Grigorii
- Owner:
- Roman Vasilievich Grigorii
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/16/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/16/2021
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- Keyword:
- building materials, disaster reconstruction, climate change, environment, disaster management, and sustainability
- Creator:
- Stephen H. Carr, PhD, P.E. Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Missaka Hettiarachchi PhD, CEng Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund, William M. Miller, PhD Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Mike M. McMahon Strategic Partnerships Administrator, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University., Vidushi Dwivedi, MS Research Assistant, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University, Jennifer B. Dunn, PhD Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , and Anita Van Breda Senior Director, Environment and Disaster Management World Wildlife Fund
- Contributor:
- Jennifer Pepson-Elwood , Megan McConnell, Elham Ramyar, and Vasantha Wakkumbura
- Owner:
- Mike McMahon
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-11-22
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.21985/n2-139p-gw08 and ISBN 978-0-578-31332-0
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three studies related to parental employment, maternity leave policy, and early care and education. In study 1, my coauthor and I evaluate the impact of parenthood on men and women’s job performance and career advancement using detailed data from the U.S. Marines. For parents who remain...
- Subject:
- Public policy, Labor economics, and Education
- Creator:
- Healy, Olivia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15746 and etdadmin_upload_844713
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the poetry and culture of the late-Soviet era of Stagnation (1964-1985) through a broadly conceived cultural metaphor of stagnation. The five Russian poets and one American poet in this study- Viktor Krivulin, Alexei Parshchikov, Aleksandr Eremenko, Ivan Zhdanov, Elena Shvarts, and Lyn Hejinian- each engage with a...
- Keyword:
- Russian Intellectual History , End of History , Russian Poetry, Soviet Stagnation, Russian Postmodernism , and Soviet Underground
- Subject:
- Modern literature, Slavic literature, and Slavic studies
- Creator:
- Topoleski, Anthony
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15745 and etdadmin_upload_844690
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle’s foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
- Keyword:
- Space, Victorian, Literature, Sympathy, Silence, and Environment
- Subject:
- History and English literature
- Creator:
- Mason, Sarah Michelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15678 and etdadmin_upload_838563
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- Description:
- This thesis proposes a robust multi-pronged approach to study the effect of nanoparticles on cells. In the first place, this work is focused on investigation of the protein corona that accumulates on the surface of nanoparticles internalized by the cells and their poly-pathway effects on protein availability and messenger RNA...
- Keyword:
- SR-FTIR, Nanoparticles, PARP, XFM, and BIRC5
- Subject:
- Biology, Nanotechnology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Lastra, Ruben Omar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_837951 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15671
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- Description:
- Mitochondria-lysosome contacts are recently identified sites for mediating crosstalk between both organelles, but their role in normal and diseased human neurons remains unknown. We used super-resolution and live-cell microscopy in human iPSC-derived neurons to demonstrate that mitochondria-lysosome contacts can dynamically form in the soma, axons, and dendrites of human neurons,...
- Keyword:
- Lysosome, Mitochondria, iPSC, Interorganelle contacts, GBA, and Parkinson's disease
- Subject:
- Neurosciences, Molecular biology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Kim, Soojin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_825288 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15606
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- Description:
- The prevalence of obesity within the US continues to rise, and many individuals elect to involve supportive others in their weight loss. Social support is generally helpful in weight management, but its mechanisms are less understood. One construct that deserves further attention is homophily, or the notion that “birds of...
- Keyword:
- Weight Loss, Homophily, Obesity, Social Support, Behavior Change, and Intervention
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology, Behavioral psychology, and Behavioral sciences
- Creator:
- Hoffman Marchese, Sara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15672 and etdadmin_upload_838140
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- Description:
- The question of how native species diversity affects a community’s ability to resist invasive species has inspired decades of research. One of the oldest invasion biology hypotheses is that more species rich ecosystems are less invaded. While there has been strong support for this hypothesis, there is also strong evidence...
- Keyword:
- invasive species, community ecology, phylogenetic diversity, ecological restoration, and functional diversity
- Subject:
- Plant sciences, Ecology, and Conservation biology
- Creator:
- Ernst, Adrienne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15686 and etdadmin_upload_839932
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- Description:
- Recent estimates indicate that 21 million US adults live with Type II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The management of the condition often requires patients to take multiple prescription medications to prevent disease progression; yet prescribed regimens themselves can become burdensome. Studies have shown that for patients with T2DM, the average regimen...
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Russell, Andrea M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_828323 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15614
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a collection of three papers on synthesizing and translating statistical evidence in education research. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction and executive summary, and Chapters 2 - 4 contain the three substantive papers respectively. Chapter 2 presents methods for pooling sample variances across studies to improve properties...
- Keyword:
- meta-analysis, clearinghouse data, translation science, data visualization, statistical cognition, and evidence synthesis
- Subject:
- Statistics and Education
- Creator:
- Fitzgerald, Kaitlyn Grace
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15676 and etdadmin_upload_838471
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- Description:
- How we remember, narrate and teach the past is an inherently political and ethical act. This is especially true when teaching about race and racism within the context of United States history. In this dissertation, I ask: how do young people narrate the durability of racial inequality in the United...
- Subject:
- History and Education
- Creator:
- Berry, Allena Ginneh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15704 and etdadmin_upload_841990
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- Description:
- Recent developments in research concerning organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have overseen massive increases in device performance and the ascension of electron acceptor materials that outclass the preeminent acceptor compounds, buckminsterfullerene (C60) derivatives. New design strategies in the molecular structure of perylenediimides (PDIs) and fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have increased single-junction photovoltaic...
- Subject:
- Physical chemistry and Organic chemistry
- Creator:
- Alzola, Joaquin Miguel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_842131 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15706
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- Description:
- The prospect of being evaluated by others is oftentimes psychologically crippling. At the core of feeling evaluated is perceiving other minds capable of possessing (judgmental) thoughts and feelings. While research on mind perception in evaluative situations oftentimes examines positive aspects (e.g., increased prosocial behavior), this dissertation looks into how mind...
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Management
- Creator:
- Schweitzer, Shane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15637 and etdadmin_upload_831464
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- Description:
- In nearly all Eukaryotes, the membrane-enclosed nucleus contains the vast majority of the cellular genome. Within this sub-cellular compartment, the nuclear architecture facilitates genomic chromatin organization. Controlling chromosomal loci’s spatial positioning relative to subnuclear structures and each other can have local and global effects on gene expression. Moreover, chromatin organization...
- Keyword:
- Statistics, Epigenetics, Genome, Yeast, Nucleus, and Diffusion
- Subject:
- Molecular biology, Genetics, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Sumner, Michael Chas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_837750 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15670
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- Description:
- Noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) have shown promise as imaging agents, drug delivery platforms, and plasmonic sensors. Anisotropic gold NPs, such as gold nanostars, have particularly received attention due to their shape-dependent optical and spectral properties. With their 3D anisotropic structure with branches protruding into different directions and high surface areas,...
- Keyword:
- Nanostar, DIC Microscopy, Nanoparticle, and Electron Tomography
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Choo, Priscilla
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15668 and etdadmin_upload_837616
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- Description:
- The ubiquitous role of water in biochemical, electrochemical, and geochemical systems has driven scientific interest in studying the fundamental hydrogen-bonding interactions that water molecules exhibit in the presence of different materials.Specifically, we focus on the interactions characterizing water at the interface between two bulk media, as these are essential to...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Dalchand, Naomi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_842499 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15708
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- Description:
- In an era of personalized medicine, the clinical community has become increasingly focused on understanding diseases at the cellular and molecular level. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging modality for acquiring anatomical and functional information. However, it has limited applications in field of molecular imaging due to low...
- Keyword:
- Magnetic resonance imaging, Bioresponsive probe, Contrast agent, Lanthanide Probe, and Molecular imaging
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Li, Hao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_842693 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15709
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- Description:
- Proteins are known to have diverse biomedical functions and excellent catalytic performance; however, they are also fragile outside living cells, challenging their use in industrial applications. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous crystalline materials that consist of metal cluster nodes and organic linkers. With their rigid structures, MOFs can effectively...
- Keyword:
- Protein Stabilization, Drug Delivery, and Biocatalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chen, Yijing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15658 and etdadmin_upload_835507
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- Description:
- Like many diseases, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is driven by the activity of inflammatory cells. Using molecular imaging to target and analyze populations of inflammatory cells is one promising strategy to non-invasively assess atherosclerosis progression. However, current molecular imaging contrast agents are not suited for such targeted imaging applications. Nanomaterial-based strategies...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Targeted delivery, Nanoparticles, Drug delivery, and Magnetic resonance imaging
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering, and Nanotechnology
- Creator:
- Modak, Mallika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15664 and etdadmin_upload_836754
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- Description:
- Human complex diseases such as common cancers and diabetes are characterized by high molecular heterogeneity contributed by both genetic and non- genetic factors. This molecular heterogeneity can not only complicate diagnosis, risk stratification and patient care, but also lead to differential therapeutic response and treatment efficiency. Therefore, understanding the molecular...
- Keyword:
- Precision medicine , Cancer , Epigenetics, Complex disease , and Diabetes
- Subject:
- Epidemiology and Bioinformatics
- Creator:
- Zeng, Chang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15643 and etdadmin_upload_832581
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we aim to develop efficient algorithms with theoretical guarantees for noisy nonlinear optimization problems, with and without constraints, under various different assumptions. Apart from Chapter 1 which provides relevant backgrounds, the remaining of thesis is divided into four chapters. In Chapter 2, we establish the theoretical convergence...
- Keyword:
- LBFGS, noisy optimization, quasi-Newton, derivative-free optimization, nonlinear optimization, and BFGS
- Subject:
- Computer science and Industrial engineering
- Creator:
- Xie, Yuchen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844865 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15749
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- Description:
- With neurons as its primary computational components, the brain operates at multiple timescales. In this thesis, we focus on two timescales: on a relatively slow timescale on the order of hours to days, the brain adapts to the environment it is exposed to and learns its circuitry by altering the...
- Keyword:
- Synchronization, Binocular matching, Primary visual cortex , Neuronal heterogeneity, Computational neuroscience, and Gamma rhythm
- Subject:
- Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Xu, Xize
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845291 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15765
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- Description:
- Nanoparticles (NPs) are emerging as attractive drug carriers in therapeutic and diagnostic applications. The physiochemical properties of NPs, such as particle size, shape, and surface chemistry, play important roles in the functions of engineered nanoconstructs−NP cores with surface ligands. Recent work has screened these properties by monitoring cellular uptake and/or...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Liu, Tingting
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15753 and etdadmin_upload_844987
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- Description:
- This dissertation proposes a theory that views beats as probabilistic domains that I term “pockets,” taking a vernacular term commonly used by jazz, funk, and popular music performers to describe the state of being in a good groove and making it concrete through empirical methods. Pockets have three key properties:...
- Keyword:
- rhythm, microtiming, music information retrieval, and corpus studies
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Hosken, Fred
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844477 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15738
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- Description:
- Although there has been profound evidence showing the positive correlation between spatial abilities and math performances, we still know very little about how and why spatial thinking facilitates the learning of mathematics. This dissertation unpacks several aspects of mathematics that are embedded in learning and playing an ancient and rich...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics, Spatial thinking, Game , and Learning
- Subject:
- Mathematics education, Education, and Educational psychology
- Creator:
- Yu, Yanning
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845195 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15756
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- Description:
- Superconducting circuits are electrical circuits fabricated from superconducting materials. Due to the engineered strong interactions and suppressed sensitivity to environmental noise, such systems hold substantial promise as quantum bits, in which quantum information can be stored and manipulated with high fidelity. Over the decades, great efforts have been devoted to...
- Keyword:
- Two-level systems, Quantum computation, Superconducting qubits, Noise-protected qubits, Quantum information, and Circuit quantization
- Subject:
- Quantum physics
- Creator:
- You, Xinyuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845380 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15771
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- Description:
- This thesis studies Bayesian-robustness of algorithm design. The main perspective requires for a single fixed algorithm that its performance is an approximation of the optimal performance when its inputs are independent and identical draws (i.i.d.) from every unknown distribution which is an element of a known, large class of distributions....
- Keyword:
- mechanism design, prior independent algorithms, benchmark design, and lower bounds
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Johnsen, Aleck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15766
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- Description:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron (MN) degeneration and resulting in progressive paralysis and death. ALS is genetically heterogeneous, disease pathophysiology is not completely understood, and there are no effective drug therapies. To develop broadly applicable therapeutics, we examine disease mechanisms in the...
- Keyword:
- nucleocytoplasmic transport, NEK1, microtubules, iPSCs, C9orf72, and ALS
- Subject:
- Neurosciences, Molecular biology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Daley, Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_825395 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15607
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- Description:
- Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a ubiquitous human pathogen capable of causing debilitating diseases such as herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) and herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). Although HSV infection initiates disease pathogenesis, the resulting clinical manifestations are attributed to immunopathological events that occur following viral clearance. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms...
- Keyword:
- herpes simplex virus, herpes stromal keratitis, TAM receptors, herpes simplex encephalitis, and herpesvirus entry mediator
- Subject:
- Virology and Immunology
- Creator:
- Park, Seo Jin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15730 and etdadmin_upload_844174
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- Description:
- We prove the uniqueness of equilibrium states for certain potentials satisfying the Bowen property for two flows related to geodesic flows on surfaces with sufficient hyperbolicity. Our first result is the uniqueness of equilibrium states for Hölder continuous potentials and the geometric potential for products of geodesic flows of rank...
- Keyword:
- geodesic flow, conjugate points, hyberbolic dynamics, measure of maximal entropy, thermodynamic formalism, and equilibrium state
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McEnroe, Rachel Maxine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15743 and etdadmin_upload_844617
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- Description:
- The BV Laplacian Δ, first introduced by Batalin and Vilkovisky, is a second-order differential operator that appears in the quantum master equation for quantizing gauge theories. The geometric framework for the BV formalism was later recognized by Schwarz as the setting of odd symplectic geometry and Khudaverdian showed that Δ...
- Subject:
- Physics and Mathematics
- Creator:
- Kumar, Nilay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845582 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15776
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- Description:
- Nanomaterials are increasingly incorporated in modern day life, from the biogenic viruses that cause pandemics and the mineral crystallites embedded alongside collagen in our bones, to the anthropogenic nanomaterials that are small but powerful components of sunscreen and paint, swimming pool algaecides and wound dressings, cancer treatments, bicycle frames, and...
- Subject:
- Nanoscience and Materials Science
- Creator:
- DiCorato, Allessandra Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15714 and etdadmin_upload_843461
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three papers on methods for meta-analysis with few studies. These papers are concerned with proper inference from meta-analysis models that combine data from a small number of studies using fixed and random-effects models. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to meta-analysis, the motivation for this work and...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Zejnullahi, Rrita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15774 and etdadmin_upload_845508
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- Description:
- A framework is developed that models point defect diffusion and interaction with pre-existing microstructures during irradiation, including defect-defect interactions and defect sinks. This framework uses a modified diffusion potential that includes not only defect concentration, but also intrinsic stresses from the pre-existing microstructure. Various microstructures are studied in {Fe} by...
- Keyword:
- Point defects, Radiation, Triple junctions, Voids, Crack tip, and Grain boundaries
- Subject:
- Nuclear engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Zarnas, Patrick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15639 and etdadmin_upload_831637
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- Description:
- The treatment of AML remains to be a challenge due to the high rates of resistance and relapse experienced by patients after initial therapy. The MAPK-interacting kinases 1 and 2 (MNK1/2) have generated increasing interest as therapeutic targets for AML due to their critical role in malignant hematopoietic transformation via...
- Subject:
- Biology, Molecular biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Suarez Palacios, Milagros Melanie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15772 and etdadmin_upload_845430
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores lasting familial relationships and friendships among southern African Americans from the antebellum years to the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on southern Maryland, the dissertation shows how free and enslaved African Americans cultivated familial and non-familial relationships in towns and rural neighborhoods. Over the course of...
- Keyword:
- African American Studies and Black Studies
- Subject:
- History, Black history, and American history
- Creator:
- Rosado, Ana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15697 and etdadmin_upload_841483
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- Description:
- The leptonic and inclusive hadronic decay branching fractions of the W boson are studied using 35.9 $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected at $\sqrt{s}=13~TeV$ during the 2016 run of the CMS experiment. Events characterized by the production of pairs of W bosons from \ttbar and \tW processes are selected. Multiple...
- Keyword:
- lepton flavor universality, W boson branching fraction, and CMS
- Subject:
- Particle physics and Physics
- Creator:
- Chen, Ziheng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15758 and etdadmin_upload_845225
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- Description:
- Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) methods are techniques that image a sample by illuminating it with a coherent beam and recording the intensity diffraction pattern produced by the wavefront outgoing from the sample. These are lensless methods that are not limited in resolution by the physical characteristics of an objective lens,...
- Subject:
- Applied physics and Physics
- Creator:
- Kandel, Saugat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_830433 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15629
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- Description:
- Nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA of various lengths and structures have a wide scope of functions as therapeutic entities compared to conventional drugs. For instance, native and modified forms of nucleic acids can be used for gene silencing, genome editing, gene replacement, immune system modulation, and theranostics. While...
- Keyword:
- lipids, RNA, drug delivery, nanoparticles, and DNA
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Sinegra, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15759 and etdadmin_upload_845229
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- Description:
- In a new analysis of Renaissance pastoral that draws on ecocriticism, queer theory, and a historicist approach, this dissertation finds a green and inhuman world that opposes the modern view that humans differ significantly from, and enjoy a right of dominion over, nonhuman species and the environment. Through readings of...
- Keyword:
- posthumanism, Machiavelli, pastoral, nature, Shakespeare, and ecocriticism
- Subject:
- Comparative literature, Italian literature, and English literature
- Creator:
- Pederson, Alicia Sands
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15618 and etdadmin_upload_829081
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- Description:
- How do people make meaning of risk-taking? The present dissertation proposes a normative lay theory of risk-taking. The proposed model promotes the following core ideas: (a) Risk-taking is generally an ambiguous construct and requires the illumination of at least some dimensional parameters to disambiguate the risk behavior and risk-taker; (b)...
- Keyword:
- attitudes, responsible, lay theory, perceptions, reckless, and risk-taking
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Wages, James Ellis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15769 and etdadmin_upload_845373
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- Description:
- The focus on this thesis is on the dynamics of colloidal particles in an applied electric field in a uniform bulk fluid and on a fluid-fluid interface. In a bulk fluid, the dynamics of an isolated particle, one pair, and a cluster of particles under an applied nonuniform electric field...
- Keyword:
- collective motion, electrorotation, and colloidal particle
- Subject:
- Fluid mechanics and Applied mathematics
- Creator:
- Hu, Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_839430 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15683
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- Description:
- This research looks at the robotic shape formation problem, which is one of the fundamental problems in robotic swarm systems. Here, the task is to move a group of robots to form a user-specified shape. In this dissertation, the task of shape formation is divided to four problems: (i) using...
- Keyword:
- distributed systems, scheduling and planning, algorithms, sensor networks, and swarm systems
- Subject:
- Computer science, Computer engineering, and Robotics
- Creator:
- wang, hanlin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844241 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15732