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Description:: The reforms called for by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (National Research Council, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013) involve students using scientific and engineering practices to construct disciplinary knowledge with others. For this work to be meaningful, students need to understand what they were doing and how their actions...
Keyword:: professional development,, epistemology, argumentation, and modeling
Subject:: Learning Sciences
Creator:: Abraham Sillan Lo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/09/2019
Date Modified:: 02/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) has enormous potential to become a paradigmatic model of individual diﬀerences. However, while its foundations in experimental genetic and neurophysiological research on nonhuman animals are among the strongest in personality psychology, it has perhaps not gained the foothold within the ﬁeld that it deserves. It is...
Keyword:: modeling, reinforcement sensitivity theory, emotion, individual differences, personality, and cues-tendencies-actions model
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Ashley Danielle Brown
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/22/2018
Date Modified:: 10/22/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The automobile coating industry is undergoing reformation driven by environmental regulations that demand low content of volatile organic compounds. Traditional solvent-borne acrylic resins consisting of high molecular weight polymers that are produced at low temperatures (< 80 C) need high levels of organic solvent (70%) to be processed as coatings....
Keyword:: quantum, acrylate, modeling, polymerization, and kinetic
Subject:: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Creator:: Xinrui Yu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/06/2018
Date Modified:: 09/06/2018
Date Created:: 2008-03-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: A current challenge to the civil/environmental engineering field is to assist full-scale wastewater treatment facilities through wider use of advances in modeling methods and analytical techniques. To address this challenge I applied modeling tools and, with assistance, the molecular biology analytical method of Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) to the high...
Keyword:: wastewater, modeling, and biological aerated filter
Subject:: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Creator:: George Brian Sprouse
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/06/2018
Date Modified:: 09/06/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-06
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation develops and applies coupled marine sulfur and strontium cycle modeling to the highly dynamic Early Cretaceous demonstrating the value of increased model constraint from linkage of biogeochemical cycles with shared forcing factors. A foundation for this work is first provided by review of relevant geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological...
Keyword:: isotopes, modeling, Cretaceous, Sulfur, and Strontium
Subject:: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Creator:: Brian Kristall
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/14/2018
Date Modified:: 02/14/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: From energy to materials, hydrocarbon chemistry drives our world. Stemming from the petrochemical industry, our understanding of CxHy combinations has allowed society to flourish, and hydrocarbons will likely remain valuable species in our future even as we transition to greener carbon and hydrogen sources. Currently, one of the most efficient...
Keyword:: nickel, catalysis, modeling, DFT, oligomerization, and acid zeolite
Subject:: Chemical engineering
Creator:: Koninckx, Elsa
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_900740 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16036

Description:: Processing of sensory information in the brain is a pervasive and fundamental phenomenon across animal species and is involved in both "hard-wired" innate responses as well as learned and adaptive behaviors. Here, I show that the avoidance of hot temperature, a simple innate behavior, contains unexpected plasticity and complex processing...
Keyword:: systems neuroscience, sensory navigation, modeling, drosophila, thermosensation, and neural circuits
Subject:: Applied mathematics, Biology, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Levy, Joshua
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_836701 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15663

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