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- For over a hundred years, psychologists have sought to understand the role of spirituality in human behavior and experience, and how it might relate to features of personality. This study considered personal narration of spiritual experience and how it relates to the personality traits of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion,...
- Keyword:
- Spirituality, Race, and Personality
- Creator:
- Simpson, Ahmadu
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- During pregnancy, mothers undergo a range of physiological changes including shifting hormone levels, modified immune function, and reduced gut motility. These changes are necessary to meet the pregnant mother’s increased energy needs and inhibit rejection of the fetus. The gut microbiota (GM) – the community of microorganisms that live in...
- Keyword:
- Inflammation, Immune Markers, Gut Microbiome, Immune Function, Pregnancy, and Philippines
- Creator:
- Sahana Kuthyar, Delia Carba, Aaron Miller, Madelyn Moy, Thomas McDade, and Katherine Amato
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Examining fertility knowledge and identifying knowledge gaps in those who may need to delay childbearing is essential, especially for individuals who may be pursuing higher education. Educating these individuals is also critical as prior research has confirmed that fertility awareness may modify future reproductive choices and outcomes. The primary goals...
- Keyword:
- knowledge, education, career aspirations, undergraduate students, fertility, and infertility
- Creator:
- Eve C. Feinberg, Rachel Okine, Lia A. Bernardi, Grace Smith, and Marissa Luck
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- The revitalization of endangered languages is both deeply personal and political, as language subjugation is directly linked to intentional efforts by colonizing powers to suppress and eradicate indigenous culture and dismantle local collective identity. Many studies have been conducted on how to promote endangered languages, but few evaluate the effectiveness...
- Keyword:
- language revitalization, Irish, language, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland
- Creator:
- Lally, Shannon
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/30/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Experts have recognized the potential for religion to shape environmental attitudes. In recent decades, the world has seen the rise of faith-based organizations in tackling issues of sustainability, particularly those following Islamic ecotheology. Embedded in Islamic scripture is an emphasis on responsibility and accountability towards the Earth; Islamic environmental organizations...
- Keyword:
- ecotheology, environmental ethics, environment, Religion, Islam, and sustainability
- Creator:
- Khraisheh, Kayan
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- The global coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed the way people and institutions interact with one another. In the United States, there has been an observable and documented increase in xenophobia and a breakdown of social and institutional trust. Consistent with a US history of scapegoating other populations for major crises,...
- Keyword:
- COVID-19, Blame, and Coronavirus
- Creator:
- Meresh, Alka
- Contributor:
- Shapiro, Lilah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Homelessness and menstruation are constructs and processes that are plagued with stigma. For decades, academics have researched menstruation and homelessness as separately stigmatized experiences. However, in the process, scholars have overlooked the converging and intersectional nature of the stigma surrounding homeless menstruation. \\n\\nThrough library research and records, this paper analyzes...
- Keyword:
- menstruations, stigma, and homelessness
- Creator:
- Gaddam, Meghna
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/24/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts. Incorporating original research from the private archives of leading narrators—artists who write and perform their work—Juliet... and This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Michigan State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available...
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- registers of dialogue, archives, classical oration, social issues, microhistory, students, dramaturgy of the world, international populism, laboratorio teatro settimo, theatrical traditions, david enia, laura curino, animazione teatrale, The long 1970s, radio clandestine, nationalist politics, workers, site-specific performance, dialect, italian television, festival, marco baliani, beppe grillo, heterotopia, fake news, public space, giovanni levi, carlo gizburg, and five star movement
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- Italian drama
- Creator:
- Guzzetta, Juliet
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4386-9 , Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4387-6 , and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4388-3
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- In an era where the world is plagued with environmental problems ranging from climate change to heavy metal pollution, new pathways towards environmental protection need to be implemented. Around the globe, countries have been constitutionalizing environmental rights in order to better use the law as a tool in these efforts....
- Keyword:
- northwestern undergraduate law journal
- Creator:
- Godron. Alexia
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Law Journal
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- In 1994, South Africa held its first fully enfranchised election to usher in a new era and move away from the cruel Apartheid system of racial separation. This paper seeks to explain how political party-based constitutional negotiations in the final years of Apartheid influenced the country’s structure of government. I...
- Keyword:
- northwestern undergraduate law journal
- Creator:
- Akiyama, Connor
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern Undergraduate Law Journal
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/11/2021
- Date Modified:
- 05/11/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Before initiating a walking movement, the central nervous system forms a motor plan, a set of motor commands predicted to accomplish task-specific goals. To be effective, motor plans must be continually updated to consider an ever-changing external environment. Despite being an inherent part of walking, how the nervous system adapts...
- Keyword:
- Motor Learning, Adaptation, Gait, Uncertainty, Center of Mass, and Motor Control
- Subject:
- Physical therapy and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Bucklin, Mary Ann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16185 and etdadmin_upload_922879
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- In the face of a changing climate caused by anthropomorphic release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, major governments have committed to the reduction of CO2 and other emissions over time, requiring increased reliance on forms of carbon-free renewable energy. The inherent intermittency of renewable electricity sources creates a...
- Keyword:
- additive manufacturing, Solid oxide electrolyzer, Solid oxide fuel cell, ceramics, exsolution , and 3D-printing
- Subject:
- Nanoscience, Materials Science, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Geisendorfer, Nicholas R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_873708 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15899
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- This paper discusses the role of the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer in Catherine Lamb’s composition Prisma Interius IX. This instrument is a MIDI keyboard that controls a computer program consisting of a bank of resonant band-pass filters, which are tuned to specific frequencies and can be opened or closed to varying...
- Keyword:
- Composition, Sound, Music, Electronic Music, and Experimental Music
- Subject:
- Music and Musical composition
- Creator:
- Jenkins, Noah Fletcher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_872461 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15893
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- In the United States, allergic disease affects approximately 60 million people and impacts more people every year. While prevalence of allergic disease has steadily increased, there has concurrently been an increase in rates of metabolic syndrome—characterized by increased abdominal girth, decreased sensitivity to insulin, and higher levels of circulating blood...
- Keyword:
- lung, hyperglycemia, immunometabolism, homeostasis, allergy, and metabolism
- Subject:
- Biology, Immunology, and Medicine
- Creator:
- Queener, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15602 and etdadmin_upload_824073
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- Rocky exoplanets are indicated to be common in the galaxy. Future instruments including the {\it James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST), high resolution ground-based spectrographs, and direct imaging missions for under consideration by the 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics are poised to unlock the atmospheres of habitable zone planets...
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- Exoplanets, Climate modeling, Biosignatures, Habitability, Astrobiology, and Planetary atmospheres
- Subject:
- Astrophysics, Planetology, and Atmospheric sciences
- Creator:
- Chen, Howard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_869081 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15887
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- Facts are not enough! The more recent wave of science communication practices have been advocating for the death of the deficit model of science communication. This model notes that by possessing sufficient information, individuals will change their attitude and behavior to align with scientific facts. However, recent research has shown...
- Keyword:
- Narrative Persuasion, Trust, Curiosity, Pop Culture, Science Communication, and Public Engagement
- Subject:
- Climate change, Science education, and Communication
- Creator:
- Maktoufi, Reyhaneh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_860101 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15844
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- As the interest in rational synthesis for solid-state materials accelerates, there is an urgent need to understand the design principles concealed within these reactions. In situ material synthesis provides such an avenue to not only uncover these assembling rules, but also for finding new materials even in seemingly familiar phase...
- Keyword:
- Material Synthesis, Heteroanionic, In Situ, X-ray Diffraction, Solid-State Synthesis, and Rational Design
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- McClain, Rebecca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15949 and etdadmin_upload_880527
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- Part I: Evaluating the relationship between Crosslink Kinetics and Thermodynamics with the hydrogel mechanics. The past two decades have witnessed a surge of applications built upon dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC), both attributed to the scope of developed reactions as well as their modularity.1-3 These reactions have comparable strengths to their...
- Keyword:
- Hydrogels, Rheology, Photoswitch, and Kinetics
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Polymer chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Accardo, Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15898 and etdadmin_upload_873494
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- Biomedical imaging is an essential part of medicine that enables the non-invasive observation of biological phenomena. This, in turn, allows for more accurate and earlier diagnoses, monitoring of therapies, and even fundamental research into biological processes. Molecular imaging, a fast-growing subdiscipline of biomedical imaging, seeks to image biochemical processes at...
- Keyword:
- Theranostic, Gadolinium, Bioresponsive, Chemotherapy, MRI, and Platinum
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Adams, Casey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_864932 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15884
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- Individuals with psychotic disorders experience profound challenges in maintaining a coherent sense of self and identity over time. Although disturbances in the basic, momentary sense of self are core features of psychotic experiences, less is known about psychosis’s impact on the autobiographical self, the experience of being a coherent and...
- Keyword:
- Self-referential processing, Self-concept, Emerging adulthood, Resting-state functional connectivity, Clinical high risk for psychosis, and Narrative identity
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology, Personality psychology, and Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Cowan, Henry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_888615 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15974
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- Sentence comprehension requires both syntactic prediction and working memory processes. Evidence suggests that both are impaired in agrammatic aphasia, and can independently contribute to comprehension breakdowns, but the relationship between them, especially during real-time sentence comprehension remains unclear. Two EEG studies investigated on-line processing of sentences with non-local long-distance dependencies...
- Keyword:
- active dependency formation, working memory, syntactic prediction, Aphasia, Agrammatic comprehension, and integration deficits
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Speech therapy, and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Hsu, Chien-Ju
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15891 and etdadmin_upload_870367
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- Description:
- RNA viruses cause a wide range of diseases that range from mild respiratory illness to fatal hemorrhagic fevers. To combat these pathogens, most cells in the human body scan the cell for viruses and activate a potent cell-intrinsic immune response by producing interferon (IFN), a cytokine that amplifies the innate...
- Subject:
- Virology, Molecular biology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Lenoir, Jessica
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_866862 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15886
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- Description:
- In the late Middle Ages, the Italian word fama had a wide semantic range that encompassed such vitally important topics as reputation, honor, community memory, and trustworthiness. In this dissertation, I examine how fama manifested within sodomy prosecutions in late medieval Italy and what insights such prosecutions can give into...
- Keyword:
- Middle Ages, Fama, Sexuality, Italy, Gender, and Renaissance
- Subject:
- Medieval history
- Creator:
- Noll-Syrigos, Kathleen Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15846 and etdadmin_upload_860406
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- Description:
- This project studies the formal experimentations with color in postwar cinema as a paradigm for exploring larger theoretical and political questions relating to postwar aesthetics. Borrowing from an understudied concept of Gilles Deleuze’s theory, “the color-image,” my first chapter shifts the conversation away from reading color as strictly symbolic or...
- Keyword:
- French cinema , Postcolonial theory, Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Godard, Gilles Deleuze, and Postwar cinema
- Subject:
- French literature
- Creator:
- Tasevska, Tamara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15812 and etdadmin_upload_854907
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- Description:
- Future large-scale quantum networks will likely require more efficient on-chip devices for quantum key distribution (QKD) systems that can exploit CMOS manufacturing techniques. QKD systems on chip have been produced in a number of material platforms including silicon, indium phosphide, and a range of hybrid structures. Advanced industrial silicon-electronics manufacturing...
- Keyword:
- thin-film lithium-niobate, integrated photonics, and quantum optics
- Subject:
- Optics, Quantum physics, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Elkus, Bradley Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863944 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15876
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- Description:
- Current technologies capable of establishing bioresorbable orthopedic fixation devices and stents have broad utility for biomedical applications to improve constructive tissue remodeling. Recent studies and investigations on bioresorbable conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics, and polymer substrates offer a promising opportunity to propel the existing non-degradable bioelectronic devices to the promising bioresorbable electronics,...
- Keyword:
- Soft materials, Bioresorbable electronics, Solid mechanics, Functional interfaces, Implantable electronics, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Bioengineering, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Quansan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/18/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824270 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15603
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- Description:
- Social engagement, or shared attention between a child and caregiver, is a critical process for language and social development. Although previous EEG studies have investigated child social processing in closely controlled, experimental studies, no study has examined the interactive, reciprocal process of naturalistic social engagement. In my first paper, we...
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Manning, Brittany L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15820 and etdadmin_upload_855920
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates processes controlling the Ca isotope geochemistry (δ44/40Ca) of Icelandic samples, from an atomic to island-wide scale. These studies embody the range of applications for which the Ca isotope proxy can apply in surficial environments, and I offer novel δ44/40Ca data for Icelandic rivers, rocks, minerals, soil, and...
- Keyword:
- chemical weathering, basalt , Calcium isotopes, carbon cycle, Iceland, and zeolites
- Subject:
- Geochemistry, Geology, and Environmental geology
- Creator:
- Nelson, Claire
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_848961 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15786
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about people living with the ruins of an old city. It demonstrates that ruined cities can provide sources of cultural identity and community life, conditions that contribute to social revitalization in times of crisis. The case study for this dissertation examines the ancient Maya city of Ake,...
- Keyword:
- Community regeneration, Ancient Maya, Settlement regeneration, Ruins, Political collapse, and Yucatan
- Subject:
- Latin American history and Archaeology
- Creator:
- Rosado Ramirez, Roberto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15822 and etdadmin_upload_856308
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- Description:
- Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles are a class of highly abundant atmospheric constituents that represent a substantial fraction of carbon within the climate system. A subset of naturally-occurring SOA particles are formed through atmospheric oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), forming oxygenated products of lower volatility that can partition...
- Keyword:
- organosulfate, sulfate, aerosol, isoprene, IEPOX, and synthesis
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Atmospheric chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Varelas, Jonathan Gregory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15797 and etdadmin_upload_851268
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students’ epistemic agency as they do science in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such learning...
- Keyword:
- Restructurations, Agent-based models, Constructionism, Computational Thinking, and Scientific inquiry
- Subject:
- Education, Educational technology, and Science education
- Creator:
- Dabholkar, Sugat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15865 and etdadmin_upload_863334
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- Description:
- The microtubule (MT) network and associated regulatory proteins play a critical role during viral infection from facilitating viral particle transport towards the nucleus upon entry to later mediating virion assembly and egress. Many of the precise mechanisms by which viruses commandeer the host MT network to propagate infection remain poorly...
- Keyword:
- TACC3, virus, microtubules, and +TIP
- Subject:
- Virology, Microbiology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Furey, Colleen Patricia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15823
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- Description:
- Biological therapeutics have revolutionized the way we treat cancer due to their ability to target tumors discriminately, leaving healthy cells unaffected. However, our inability to tailor the structure of biologics may hamper their optimization for efficacy. This lack of programmability contributes to factors such as immunogenic responses, inability to penetrate...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Cancer therapy, Synthetic biology, Synthetic chemistry, Protein engineering, and Protein scaffolds
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemistry, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Kimmel, Blaise Russel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_852716 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15804
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- Description:
- Proprioception, or the sense of one’s body in space, provides critical feedback that the brain usesto generate controlled movements. When proprioceptive feedback is lost, people find it difficult to perform even basic motor tasks. Despite its importance, proprioceptive coding of single neurons in the cuneate nucleus (CN), the most peripheral...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Versteeg, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_859788 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15841
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- Description:
- In memory overgeneralization, details from negatively-valenced episodic memories become excessively generalized to unrelated neutral situations. This is a key cognitive distortion associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stress promotes memory generalization, and this process likely relies on stress-induced changes in dorsal...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Ren, Lynn Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_851720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15800
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- Description:
- Anthropogenic consumption of fossil fuels releases carbon into the Earth-atmosphere-ocean system at rates unmatched by geologic processes. Yet, some geologic time periods also show evidence of climate forcing related to rapid natural greenhouse gas emissions and can serve as tools to help understand the future trajectory of climate. Geologic events...
- Keyword:
- Ocean acidification, Climate change, Low-temperature Geochemistry, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, and Paleoceanography
- Subject:
- Paleoclimate science
- Creator:
- Kitch, Gabriella Dawn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863458 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15871
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on identifying structure-property-performance relationships in supported nanoparticle catalysts, where an active catalyst material is supported on a high surface area substrate. Identifying these relationships in supported nanoparticle catalysts can be quite challenging, as the complex structure of these catalysts results in numerous potential sources for changes to...
- Keyword:
- Surfaces, Catalysis, Nanoparticles, Interfaces, Density Functional Theory, and Electron Microscopy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Mansley, Zachary Ryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15855 and etdadmin_upload_862543
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- Description:
- In modern electronics, thermal management becomes one of the most crucial factors in the determination of the performance, quality and lifetime of devices. Especially with the development of internet of things and the digitization of worldwide information, the need for storage of giant amount of data and processing with fast...
- Keyword:
- Free-standing materials, Anisotropic materials, Thermometry, and Thermal management
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Yan, Xueting
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856418 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15825
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- Description:
- Next generation cellular networks are expected to support a massive data traffic volume and satisfy a vast number of users that have latency-critical quality-of-service expectations. Towards serving this demand, it is envisaged that the interference management problem will be the main bottleneck due to the likeliness of a heavily interfering...
- Keyword:
- power control, deep Q-learning, reinforcement learning, actor critic learning, radio resource management, and Jakes fading model
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering, Computer science, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nasir, Yasar Sinan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15788 and etdadmin_upload_849279
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- Description:
- Engineering design is a systematic process of identifying needs and their translation into functional systems. This is a cyclic process that alternates between the acquisition of data and the synthesis of said data to inform design decisions. Conventionally, data from physical experiments are used to explore the efficacy of alternative...
- Keyword:
- Uncertainty quantification, Design, Decision making, Machine learning, Data acquisition, and Data synthesis
- Subject:
- Design and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- van Beek, Anton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_861337 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15848
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- Description:
- The gender imbalance in computer science is getting worse, with computer science being the only Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field in which women’s representation has steadily declined throughout the past few decades. Rectifying this gender imbalance is an urgent need, both because of fundamental issues of equity and...
- Subject:
- Education
- Creator:
- Wu, Jue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856574 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15826
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- Description:
- This dissertation starts with the question of what the global resurgence of authoritarianism means for the welfare states affected by it. The inadequacies of the dominant partisan and institutionalist paradigms within the welfare state literature suggest, however, that a new paradigm for understanding welfare state development is necessary to answer...
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Johnson, Kory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15874 and etdadmin_upload_863869
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- Description:
- Though they lived a century apart and wrote in starkly disparate historical, cultural, and literary contexts, Russian poets Aleksandr Pushkin and Vladimir Mayakovsky were both victims of the posthumous processes of bureaucratization and monumentalization at the hands of the Soviet regime. Their biographies, politics, and poetry were sanitized and manipulated...
- Keyword:
- Futurism, Russian Modernism, Modernism, Poetry, Communism, and Soviet Literature
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Literature, and Slavic studies
- Creator:
- Trinks, Jasmine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_862480 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15854
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- Description:
- Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) combines the strength and directionality of covalent bonds with the reversibility of supramolecular interactions. The formation and stability of these bonds are typically regulated by parameters such as temperature, pH, concentration, catalyst loading and light. Light is an exceptionally powerful stimulus because it can be applied...
- Keyword:
- hydrazone, quinoline, dynamic covalent chemistry, boronic ester, internal catalysis, and photoswitch
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Barsoum, David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_858355 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15836
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- Description:
- Stimulus generalization is a critical mechanism for facilitating behavioral flexibility. Generalization allows the brain to reduce computational demands that would otherwise be necessary to create unique representations for each and every encounter while allowing the ability to deal with the complexity of real-world situations. Stimulus generalization is a fundamental cognitive...
- Keyword:
- discrimination learning, olfactory generalization, peak shift, fMRI, and aversive outcomes
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Porter, Daria Boratyn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_777969 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15368
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- Description:
- With the rapid advancement of machine learning techniques (in particular deep neural networks), computer vision applications have shown great promises in a variety of domains for intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPSs), such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, and vision-based robotic systems. However, while many vision applications provide great on-paper performance, their...
- Keyword:
- Computer Vision and Cyber-physical Systems
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Lan, Shuyue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845074 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15754
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- Description:
- Crystalline and Framework materials make up a broad class of structures which are known for their precise and regular nature. Because these materials have predictable structures and compositions to their networks, they are widely used for several applications including electronics, optics, and catalysis. While these materials are of particular interest,...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Flanders, Nathan C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_849597 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15789
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- Description:
- This dissertation interrogates the quality of sincerity as it appears throughout John Locke’s work on religious toleration and Christian theology. Sincerity, and the framework it provides, offers a means to draw together his political and theological works, as well as to appreciate both his radical potentialities and conservative impulses. The...
- Keyword:
- Scripture , John Locke , and Religious toleration
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Brown , Julia Margaret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_855043 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15813
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- Description:
- Part I:Current approaches to synthesize π-conjugated polymers are dominated by thermally driven, transition-metal-mediated reactions. Herein we7 show that electron-deficient Grignard monomers readily polymerize under visible-light irradiation at room temperature in the absence of a catalyst. The product distribution can be tuned by the wavelength of irradiation based on the absorption...
- Keyword:
- Photopolymerization, Polymer, and Grignard
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Polymer chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Woods, Eliot Freshwater
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_853517 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15807
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- Description:
- Cobalt(III) Schiff-base complexes (Co(III)-sb) have been utilized in the literature as antibacterial, antiviral, and inhibitory agents. Recent work has utilized their ability to displace endogenous metals from metalloproteins that exhibit aberrant gain of function pathologies in human disease. Specifically, in this dissertation Co(III)-sb has been applied as inhibitors of pathogenic...
- Keyword:
- Transcription Factors, Coordination Complexes, Cobalt, Amyloid-beta, Molecular Dynamics, and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
- Subject:
- Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
- Creator:
- Brue, Christopher Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15862 and etdadmin_upload_863221