One of the most notable recent developments in survey research is the increased usage of online convenience samples
drawn from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). While scholars have noted various social and political differences (e.g.,
age, partisanship) between MTurk and population-based samples, the breadth and depth of these variations remain unclear....
These files include source datasets for the article "Multipartite stabilization of the C. beijerincki pfl ZTP aptamer disfavors terminator hairpin folding by gating strand invasion". RELATED ARTICLE: Strobel, E.J., Cheng, L., Berman, K.E. et al. A ligand-gated strand displacement mechanism for ZTP riboswitch transcription control. Nat Chem Biol 15, 1067–1076...
All-optical switches have far reaching applications in both quantum and classical information processing. Most current all-optical switches depend on intense interactions between light and nonlinear media which may be extremely inefficient. The need for high switching beam powers have prevented all-optical switching from being very useful in most applications. Our...
This thesis is organized into three essays, each with particular insights involving public policy and family formation:
In the first essay, I address the well-documented correlation between the prestige of the university and the labor market income of its graduates by investigating whether a possible medium for this effect is...
The electronic properties of various transparent conducting oxide (TCO) surfaces are probed electrochemically via self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). A novel graftable probe molecule having a tethered trichlorosilyl group and a redox-active ferrocenyl functionality (Fc(CH2)4SiCl3) is synthesized for this purpose. On as-received ITO, saturation coverage by a close-packed monolayer having of 6.6...
Graphene sheets (one-atom-thick, two-dimensional layers of sp2-bonded carbon) are predicted to have a range of unusual properties. Recent studies have shown that individual graphene sheets have extraordinary electrical properties, but an efficient method of graphite exfoliation remains a challenge. A number of approaches to exfoliation have been tried, such as...
The dependence of the electro-optic (EO) properties on the field-dependent domain structure in epitaxial polydomain BaTiO<sub>3</sub> thin films was investigated. Models of both the field-dependent electronic polarization and the EO response and their dependence on domain structure were developed. The agreement of these models with measured polarization and EO data...
Anthony Braxton’s Trillium J, part of an ambitious planned “complex” of 36 one-act operas, premiered in 2014. Very little writing—anecdotal, journalistic, nor scholarly—exists on these works, so this research provides a critical introduction, contextualizing the operas within Braxton’s oeuvre and discussing the works’ fundamental musical materials and organization.
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