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- Entangled photons serve as an important tool in the field of quantum information processing. Traditionally, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in second-order nonlinear crystals has been the workhorse source for generating entangled photons. However, those SPDC-generated photons are notoriously difficult to couple into single-mode optical fibers due to mode mismatch, thus...
- Keyword:
- quantum computation, quantum splitter, coincidence, quantum communication, entanglement, and nonlinear fiber optics
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jun Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In "Optimal Delegation" I analyze the design of decision rules by a principal who faces an informed but biased agent and who is unable to commit to contingent transfers. The contracting problem reduces to a delegation problem in which the principal commits to a set of decisions from which the...
- Keyword:
- delegation, decision rights, cheap talk, incomplete contracts, and authority
- Subject:
- Kellogg School of Management
- Creator:
- Ricardo Alonso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines topical humor produced by "Late Night with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Saturday Night Live," and The Onion for the period of one year after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Three phases emerge: the purgation of extreme emotions like anger, acceptance or...
- Keyword:
- Speech Communication
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Ann Benacka
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis is devoted to the study of A-branes on symplectic tori and to the Mirror Symmetry conjecture. Using a method called Seidel's mirror map, we are able to reconstruct the homogeneous coordinate ring of a complex abelian variety using Lagrangian intersection theory on the mirror symplectic torus. Moreover, we...
- Keyword:
- Mirror Symmertry
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Marco Aldi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In composite manufacturing, Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) is becoming increasingly important as a cost effective manufacturing method of structural composites. In this process the dry preform (reinforcement) is placed on a rigid tool and covered by a flexible film to form an airtight vacuum bag. Liquid resin is...
- Keyword:
- Engineering and Material
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- John M Bayldon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation presents a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) study of anisotropic superconductors, MgB$_2$ and Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi2212), and diffusion in glass-forming aqueous solutions of glycerol. In glycerol and deuterated water mixtures, the diffusion of glycerol is measured selectively by the $^1$H NMR stimulated echo technique in the gradient field of a...
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- Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Bo Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Mechanisms of Bladder Barrier Dysfunction during Neurogenic Cystitis: the Role of TNF and Mast Cells
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- The primary function of the human urinary bladder is to store urine, while maintaining a permeability barrier that protects underlying tissues from noxious urinary components. Inflammatory diseases of the bladder, including urinary tract infection (UTI) and interstitial cystitis (IC), afflict millions of patients in the US annually and cause significant...
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- Physiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael C Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- High relaxivity contrast agents are of great importance in the advancement of magnetic resonance imaging diagnostics for use in biomaterials. Biomaterials that are implanted into the body, with the goal of repairing or regenerating lost or damaged tissue, need to be tracked noninvasively, over time. I have completed work using...
- Keyword:
- self-assembly, dumbbell, peptide amphiphile, templation, and MRI
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Steve Bull
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the selective visualization of blood vessels via the intravascular injection of a paramagnetic contrast agent and the suppression of background signal. Called magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), this technique can produce three-dimensional images and is useful clinically for the noninvasive diagnosis of vascular disorders. In...
- Keyword:
- magnetic resonance, angiography, and medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Ty Cashen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- What can the theatrical use of food accomplish in performances which assert cultural, legal, or moral rights to food production and consumption in a food insecure society? Case studies comprising the USDA's 1933-34 World's Fair exhibits, the May 1933 Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool protest, the 1936 Federal Theatre Project living...
- Keyword:
- History and United States
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Ann Eleanor Folino White
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I study several aspects of a game-theoretic model of persuasion. A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to take an action which is highly ranked by the speaker. The listener knows the speaker's preference but is uncertain about what the speaker can say. The listener can commit to a persuasion...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Itai Sher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is an aphasic dementia syndrome caused by neurodegenerative disease in which linguistic abilities are selectively disrupted in the relative absence of other cognitive deficits in early stages. The studies presented in this thesis were designed to examine the integrity of word and object processing by contrasting...
- Keyword:
- Dementia, Pictures, Recognition Memory, Frontotemporal Dementia, Words, and Priming
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Emily Joy Rogalski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chinese television has gone through enormous growth and significant structural change since the economic reforms of the 1970s. The changes include an increased number of channels, the establishment of overseas channels, increased reliance on advertising, more diversified programming, and heightened market competition. The new multi-channel media environment has the potential...
- Keyword:
- Communication Studies
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Elaine Yuan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Small area estimation (SAE) has been one of the most active areas in survey methodology research, due to the increasing demand for small area statistics from government agencies and the private sector. But in some areas of interest, sample sizes could be very small, or even zero, in which case,...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Haoliang Song
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Commercially available electrically powered prosthetic elbows are stiff and unyielding. Making these artificial limb replacements more closely mimic human elbows by increasing their compliance may be beneficial. In addition to having increased compliance compared with current electrically powered prosthetic elbows, humans modulate the overall impedance of their joints. The author...
- Keyword:
- prosthesis, Series Elastic Actuator, Impedance Control, and prosthetics
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jonathon Wilbur Sensinger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An understanding of how two people anticipate, adapt, and react to each other's forces and motions could aid in designing machines to work cooperatively with humans and further explain how a single human interacts with the world. Tasks, such as lifting and moving a bulky object, teaching manual skills, dancing,...
- Keyword:
- physical cooperation, interaction, human-human, and human-robot
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Kyle Brandon Reed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The present dissertation includes my research on modeling financial market returns and volatility on high frequency data. It consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces a novel high-frequency volatility estimator based on large price moves, which constitutes a generalization of the standard range. An asymptotic theory is developed in...
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- Normality Tests, Jump Detection, Generalized Range, Realized Volatility, Jump-Diffusion Processes, and High-Frequency Data
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Dobrislav Dobrev
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Information processing in the striatum is crucial for voluntary movement control and associative learning and in the normal condition is subject to balanced dopaminergic and cholinergic modulation. However, in Parkinson's disease (PD) striatal dopamine (DA) level falls because of degeneration of DA neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jun Ding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation investigates the ways in which poetry encourages visual images in the reader. This investigation breaks new ground, for in the wake of behaviorist psychology and the linguistic turn in literary theory, literary critics have ignored and often spurned the visual imagination. The project uses Imagist poetry as a...
- Keyword:
- English
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Daniel Wallace Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explains why some rebel groups act in a highly coercive fashion toward local populations, only to shift to increasingly contractual behavior, and why other groups that share similar circumstances evolve in the opposite direction. Drawing upon fieldwork in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, and Colombia, this study examines three rebel...
- Keyword:
- resources, war, insurgents, conflict, rebels, and violence
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Claire Margaret Metelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Social networks play an important role in the labor market. Various surveys document that 30-60% of jobs are found through friends or relatives. To better understand how networks operate in the labor market, I examine how networks that were formed involuntarily as a result of the American Civil War and...
- Keyword:
- Employment, First World War Veterans, Identification, Social Interactions, Civil War Veterans, and Multiple Reference Groups
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Ron Laschever
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze, using standard formal imperfect competition models from the literature, two central public policy issues in the deregulated wholesale electricity markets. The first issue is the regulatory rules around generator ownership of transmission companies or transmission rights in general. The second issue we look into is...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Serhan Ogur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor
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- In mammalian development, cell specification and organogenesis are achieved by the regulated expression and repression of specific subsets of genes. The anterior pituitary gland, comprised of five cell types that arise from a common precursor, is an excellent model system for understanding these developmental processes. Examination of factors regulating transcription...
- Keyword:
- Gene Regulation, Pituitary Development, and Alternative Splicing
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Allison Therese MvElvaine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Recent work exploring children's verb learning in the laboratory has generated some interesting contradictions. Some studies have found that children as old as 4 years old are unable to reliably map a novel verb to an action (e.g., Kersten & Smith, 2002; Imai, Haryu, & Okada, 2005), even though much...
- Keyword:
- cross-situational learning, contrast, verb learning, language acquisition, and early word learning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Thomas B Piccin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The study of III-Nitride based optoelectronics devices is a maturing field, but there are still many underdeveloped areas in which to make a contribution of new and original research. This work specifically targets the goals of realizing high-efficiency back-illuminated solar-blind photodetectors, solar-blind focal plane arrays, and visible- and solar-blind Avalanche...
- Keyword:
- APD, photodetector, Ultraviolet, avalanche, AlGaN, and FPA
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Ryan P. McClintock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We compute Lawson homology groups and semi-topological K-theory for certain "degenerate" varieties. "Degenerate" varieties are those smooth complex projective varieties whose zero cycles are supported on a proper subvariety. Rationally connected varieties are examples of such varieties. Our main method of study makes use of a technique of Bloch and...
- Keyword:
- algebraic cycles, semi-topological K-theory, and Lawson homology
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Mircea Alexandru Voineagu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Autoxidation is a primary route by which lubricants in working conditions undergo degradation. Degraded lubricants, if not replaced periodically, contribute to increased wear and product failure. Experimental studies of lubricant degradation have yielded useful results but have left important questions unanswered. While many computational studies of degradation have been carried...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jim Pfaendtner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Substrate-mediated delivery involves the immobilization of DNA, complexed with nonviral vectors, to a biomaterial or surface that supports cell adhesion. Cells cultured on the substrate are exposed to elevated DNA concentrations within the local microenvironment, which enhances transfection. As surface properties are critical to this delivery approach, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Angela Kaye Pannier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Wave propagation at the bottom of the electromagnetic spectrum (below 300 kHz) in the Earth-ionosphere system is a problem having a rich history of theoretical investigation extending over many decades. Propagation within this system involves complex interactions of electromagnetic waves with the lithosphere, oceans, and ionosphere, leading to resonances that...
- Keyword:
- remote-sensing, extremely low-frequency (ELF), earthquake precursors, electromagnetic wave propagation, lightning, and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Jamesina Jean Simpson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Should the government subsidize entry to promote competition? In theory, free entry does not guarantee the socially optimum number of entrants. In differentiated product markets, free entry can result either in excessive or insufficient entry. Quantifying this inefficiency and identifying the optimal subsidy level require an empirical framework that combines...
- Keyword:
- Entry, Simulation Method, Medicare HMO, Welfare Analysis, and GHK Simulator
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Shiko Maruyama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Lydia Sigourney, female authorship, feminism , Cult of True Womanhood , Karli Goldenberg , and Illustrated Poems
- Creator:
- Karli Goldenberg
- Owner:
- Karli Jordan Goldenberg
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2018
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the organizing local approach to labor renewal, a union model centered on organizing new workers. I examine the role of activists and what motivates them to participate beyond a rational evaluation of gains. Additionally, I establish the conditions for successful union reform, specifically, how to overcome inertial...
- Keyword:
- organizing local, structural change, reciprocity, labor revitalization, and union activism
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Laura Ariovich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The motion of thin drops under the effects of surfactants and gravity is studied. First, the effects of surfactant and temperature on the spreading of a viscous droplet are considered. Lubrication theory is used to develop a two-dimensional model for the evolution of the droplet. The surfactant is assumed to...
- Keyword:
- contact line, Marangoni, and capillary
- Subject:
- Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Matthew Allen Clay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this dissertation was to examine the influence of motivational incentives on visual spatial attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease (PRAD), patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy age-matched control subjects (EC). Specifically, I compared the ability of monetary incentives to influence behavioral and neural performance...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Lisa Bagurdes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I examine horizontally differentiated firms in three different contexts. First, I look at an industry where firms can develop self-customizable products -- products which appeal to different consumers for different reasons. This addition results in an unexpected conclusion that sometimes more differentiated firms can end up with lower profits than...
- Keyword:
- two-sided markets, horizontal differentiation, reservations, intermediaries, spatial models, and self-customization
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Alexei Alexandrov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ceramic matrix composites are known for their low density, high strength and high stiffness, but lower fracture toughness compared to metal matrix composites. The addition of a reinforcing agent within the matrix can increase the toughness of the composite via many strain energy absorption mechanisms such as plastic deformation. This...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nasim Alem
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this study was to investigate the properties of the retinal ganglion cell receptive field at low light levels. There has been considerable interest in whether the surround of a ganglion cell receptive field disappears and the center expands in size under scotopic conditions. The previous data from...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Resources
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jie Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this dissertation study was to build on scholarly work in the area of critical mathematics by such scholars as Gutstein (2003) and Gutierrez (2002). Critical pedagogy is designed to foster political agency and critical consciousness in students (Freire, 1971). That is the aim of critical mathematics in...
- Keyword:
- Teacher Beliefs, Discourse Analysis, Curriculum Analysis, Urban Education, Practitioner Research, and Critical Mathematics
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Andrew Morgan Brantliger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The abundance and breadth of condition data generated by advanced inspection technologies have increased the frequency and accuracy of data collection, which is not exploited by the existing performance models. Moreover, simultaneity of deterioration and maintenance causes difficulty of estimating effectiveness of maintenance activities for existing performance models. To address...
- Keyword:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Chih-Yuan Chu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The optical and magneto-optical properties of the ferromagnetic semiconductors, InMnAs and its alloy InMnAsP were investigated to determine the band structure and nature of the ferromagnetism in these materials. Alloys were grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. Infrared absorption of InMnAs was investigated to determine the presence and properties of...
- Keyword:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Phillip Tang Chiu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Experimental and numerical studies of lasing in multiple light scattering media with gain are presented in this thesis. Depending on the dielectric constant spatial distribution is random or periodic, two different kinds of lasers are discussed: the random laser and the photonic crystal laser. This thesis, therefore, is divided into...
- Keyword:
- Optics and Physics
- Creator:
- Xiaohua Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spectral elements are p-type element which can provide better accuracy and faster convergence. However, applications of these elements make conformation to discontinuities in the function or its derivative difficult. The eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) recently developed at Northwestern University can easily treat the arbitrarily aligned discontinuities, i.e. independent of...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hongwu Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Two-year colleges are a critical site for the expansion of educational opportunity in the United States. They enroll nearly half of all postsecondary students and are a gateway to higher education for low-income, non-traditional, racial and ethnic minority, and first-generation college students. Degree completion rates in the two-year sector are...
- Keyword:
- college advising, information and signalling, school-to-work, proprietary colleges, and occupational education
- Subject:
- Social Policy to Education and Social Policy - Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Ann Elizabeth Person
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) initially present with metastases, but little is known about the regulation of ovarian tumor cell dissemination by the tumor microenvironment. Because ovarian cancer cell dissemination is mostly limited to the peritoneal cavity and often results in the accumulation of malignant ascites, the...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Cell
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jaime Symowicz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Arsenic trioxide (As<sub>2</sub>0<sub>3</sub>) is an arsenic-derivative that exhibits potent growth inhibitory effects against malignant cells. The remarkable antitumor effects of As<sub>2</sub>0<sub>3</sub> in vitro and in vivo have prompted the development of various clinical trials that established its activity in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). As<sub>2</sub>0<sub>3</sub> is part of the standard treatment...
- Keyword:
- Biology, Cell, and Health Sciences
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Patrick Jang Yoon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented here represents a series of research projects that are unified in their goal: to use volume holographic gratings to enhance traditional signal processing applications in ways that would otherwise not be possible. To this end, we have completed work that can be classified into four different projects....
- Keyword:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- John Thomas Shen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Three critical problem areas pertinent to the development of precision high-speed spindles for meso-scale machine tools (mMTs), driven by air turbines, constitute the focus of this work. These are the development of the spindle, of a new tool clamping device, and of a measurement system for spindle error motions. For...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hankyu Sung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-02-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a multi-method study of the relocation process under the Chicago Housing Authority's implementation of federal redevelopment policies intended to decrease the racial and economic isolation of public housing tenants. It combines quantitative and spatial analysis of program administrative data, interviews with 'expert respondents,' and qualitative semi-structured interviews...
- Keyword:
- Racial Segregation, Discriminatinon in Housing, Policy Implementation, Low-Income Housing, Residential Mobility, and Policy
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Matthew Zeiler Reed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-01-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The role that spinal motion plays during ambulation is not clearly understood. Little in vivo regional spinal motion data exists in the literature with regard to walking and most gait models disregard the upper body altogether, or regard it as a single rigid structure. This study aims to increase understanding...
- Keyword:
- thoraco-lumbo-sacral orthosis, walking, spinal restriction, kinematic model, spine motion, and gait
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Regina Jane Konz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fundamental investigations on the origins of friction at the nanoscale were carried out using both theoretical and experimental approaches. A model was developed that analytically solves for friction by the motion of dislocations at atomically flat crystalline interfaces. It combines known concepts from dislocation drag, grain boundary theory, and contact...
- Keyword:
- in-situ TEM, tribology, friction, and dislocations
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Arno Peter Merkle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- In This Our World, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Poetry, and Feminism
- Creator:
- Gabriella Sant'Anna
- Owner:
- Gabriella Luisa Sant'Anna
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2018
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- Keyword:
- death, Davis, Cora M. A. , immortality, nature, Immortelles, 19th century, and American poetry
- Creator:
- Emily Feng
- Owner:
- Emily Yan Feng
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2018
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- Keyword:
- Helen, Jackson, and Hunt
- Creator:
- Ariana Moore
- Owner:
- Ariana Michelle Moore
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/17/2018
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- Keyword:
- Lillien Blanche Fearing, blindness, The Sleeping World, Northwestern University alumnae, poetry, and 19th Century American Poetry
- Creator:
- Caroline P. Chu
- Owner:
- Caroline Patricia Chu
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/15/2018
- Date Created:
- March 19, 2018
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- Keyword:
- Lyrics of Lowly Life, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask", William Dean Howells, and "The Deserted Plantation"
- Creator:
- Nerlande Adolphe
- Owner:
- Nerlande Adolphe
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/15/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/15/2018
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- Keyword:
- Alias, Helen Hunt Jackson, Illustration, Roberts Brothers, A Calendar of Sonnets, Currer Bell, Anonymous, E. H. Garrett, Poetry, Poem, Penname, H. H. , Pseudonym, 19th Century, Charlotte Bronte, Emile Bayard, and Saxe Holm
- Creator:
- Siena Moreno
- Owner:
- Siena Raquel Moreno
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
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- Description:
- Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), renowned for their high electrical generation efficiency with low pollutant production, are promising for reducing global energy and environmental concerns. However, there are major barriers for SOFC commercialization. A primary challenge is reducing the capital cost of SOFC power plants to levels that can compete...
- Keyword:
- Cathode, direct methane, SOFC, LSGM, co-generation, and syngas
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Yuanbo Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Stem cells show great promise as cellular replacement and drug delivery therapies for a number of neurological disorders. This dissertation examines embryonic and adult types of stem cells, their plasticity, and mechanisms governing their development (Chapters 1-5). Our studies illustrate that leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) signaling and bone morphogenetic protein...
- Keyword:
- astrocyte, development, neuroscience, Stem cells, BMP, and nuclear transfer
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Michael Anthony Bonaguidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Biomorphic silicon carbide (bioSiC) is a novel porous ceramic material derived directly from wood precursors. This material is fabricated by pyrolysis of a natural wood precursor in an inert atmosphere leaving an amorphous carbon scaffold. The amorphous carbon is infiltrated with molten Si in vacuum at elevated temperature, which reacts...
- Keyword:
- Engineers and Material Sciences
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Vikram Sharad Kaul
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-02-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) formation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and tauopathies occurs when tau protein adopts secondary structure and self-aggregates within neurons. Accompanying NFT maturation are post-translational modifications to tau; hyperphosphorylation, truncation and conformational changes occur in a highly sequential manner. In contrast, granulovacuolar degeneration bodies (GVDs) are a second type...
- Keyword:
- granules, p-SAPK/JNK, tau, and tangles
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Sarita Lagalwar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-02-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The electronic transport and magnetoresistive properties of the ferromagnetic semiconductor In1-xMnxAs were investigated in order to determine the nature of the transport and ferromagnetism in the films. p-InMnAs/n-InAs and metal/oxide/InMnAs heterojunctions were fabricated and characterized to elucidate the transport and magnetoresistance mechanisms at these technologically important interfaces. The electronic transport...
- Keyword:
- p-n junctions, InMnAs, and magnetic semiconductors
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Steven J. May
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-02-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Galactic center (GC) is a dense and chaotic region filled with unusual sources, such as intense star forming regions, dense star clusters, nonthermal radio filaments, and a massive black hole. The proximity of the GC region makes it an ideal place to study the unusual processes that tend to...
- Keyword:
- Star Formation, Surveys, Galactic Center, Galactic Outflows, Interstellar Medium, and Radio Observations
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Casey James Law
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Flexibility can be created in manufacturing and service operations by using multipurpose production sources such as cross-trained labor and flexible machines/factories. We focus on control and design issues in systems with flexible resources. In Chapter 2, we consider optimal scheduling of a fully cross-trained server in a finite-population queueing system...
- Keyword:
- Operations Research
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Bora Kolfal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Two new strategies have been developed to accomplish direct nucleophilic acylation reactions. In the first approach, acylsilanes are added to various electrophiles using N-heterocyclic carbenes as catalysts. The second method utilizes O-silyl thiazolium carbinols as stoichiometric acyl anion precursors to afford acylated products under mild reaction conditions. N-heterocyclic carbenes generated...
- Keyword:
- Nucleophilic Acylation, Acyl anion, N-Heterocyclic carbene, and Thiazolium
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Anita Mattson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The rapid growth of digital imaging technology and the accumulation of large collections of digital images has created the need for efficient and intelligent schemes for content-based image retrieval. Our goal is to organize the contents semantically, according to meaningful categories. We present a new approach for semantic classification that...
- Keyword:
- Electronics and Electrical and Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Dejan Depalov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- ><p><em>Vibrio cholerae</em>, the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera, secretes several "accessory" toxins including RTX toxin, which causes cross-linking of the actin cytoskeleton. The rtx locus of <em>V. cholerae</em> is located adjacent to the integrated CTX? prophage. The RTX toxin itself is encoded by the <em>rtxA</em> gene found...
- Keyword:
- Vibrio cholerae, Type I secretion, Growth phase regulation, RTX toxin, and Proteases
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Bethany Kay Boardman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In response to construction activities and loads from permanent structures, soil generally is subjected to a variety of loading modes varying both in time and location. It also has been increasingly appreciated that the strains around well-designed foundations, excavations and tunnels are mostly small, with soil responses at this strain...
- Keyword:
- plastic, directional stiffness, small strain, clay, constitutive model, and incremental non-linearity
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Xuxin Tu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Ouabi , Native American, American literature, civilized versus uncivilized or savage, republic, colonial, nineteenth century American poetry, marital laws and social constructs , American publication history, scandal , Sarah Apthorp Wentworth Morton, female literature, western frontier, and American literary canon
- Creator:
- Erin Leary
- Owner:
- Erin Linn Leary
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/14/2018
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- Keyword:
- Lucretia Maria Davidson, Amir Khan, Consumption, and 19th Century American Poetry
- Creator:
- Cameron Rodriguez
- Owner:
- Cami C Rodriguez
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2018
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- Description:
- The transport properties of mayenite-based materials, Ca12Al14O33, were investigated. Systems studied included H-doped/ UV-irradiated Ca12Al14O33, Ca(12-x)MgxAl14O33 (x = 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8, 1) and Ca12Al(14-x)SixO(33+x/2) (x = 1, 2, 3, 4). The as-prepared Ca12Al14O33 exhibited a room temperature electronic conductivity on the order of 10^-10 S/cm, and a high temperature...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Mariana Ines Bertoni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-01-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is increasing evidence that links chronic activation of glial cells and the subsequent self-propagating cycle of neuroinflammation to the neurodegenerative progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Nevertheless, attempts to identify currently approved drugs capable of safely attenuating the neuroinflammatory processes in AD have proven disappointing to date, and the development...
- Keyword:
- neuroinflammation, beta-amyloid, glia, and Alzheimer's disease
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Michael Craft
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the last decade we have seen tremendous increases in computer and network speeds and performance, resulting in the emergence of wide-area distributed computing. However, its potential has not been realized, primarily due to lack of security and isolation, provisioning issues and challenges involved in developing distributed applications. We present...
- Keyword:
- Distributed system
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Ananth Inamti Sundararaj
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Local structure determination in amorphous and disordered systems, which are crystallographically intractable, is critical for gaining an understanding of their properties. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an excellent tool for local structure determination in amorphous and disordered environmental materials. Amorphous manganese oxides produced by the freshwater bacterium Leptothrix discophora SP6...
- Keyword:
- Biogenic manganese oxides
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Ian Saratovsky
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents submillimeter polarimetry methods and scientific results. The scientific results focus on revealing the magnetic field structure of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). The basic principles, instrumentation, observing strategy, and data analysis methods of submillimeter polarimetry are introduced. The scientific data were acquired by SPARO during the observing campaign...
- Keyword:
- Physics
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Hua Bai Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In financial risk management, coherent risk measures have been proposed as a way to avoid undesirable properties of measures such as value at risk that discourage diversification and do not account for the magnitude of the largest, and therefore most serious, losses. A coherent risk measure equals the maximum expected...
- Keyword:
- generalized scenarios, simulation, ranking and selection, coherent risk measures, value-at-risk, and risk management
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Vadim Lesnevski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Following dopaminergic denervation in Parkinson's Disease, firing patterns in several basal ganglia neuron populations are pathologically altered. In the globus pallidus (GP), this manifests as a loss of autonomous, rhythmic, high-frequency pacemaking and an appearance of correlated, oscillatory bursting. This oscillatory bursting is best disrupted through high-frequency stimulation of affected...
- Keyword:
- Parkinson's Disease, sodium channels, globus pallidus, pacemaking, deep brain stimulation, and basal ganglia
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jeff Mercer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Reactivation of latent human cytomegalovirus is of significant concern in immunocompromised transplant patients. However, the mechanisms controlling reactivation of latent CMV have not been understood. It is likely that reactivation is initiated by induction of IE gene expression. In this thesis, I studied molecular mechanisms leading to transcriptional activation of...
- Keyword:
- Microbiology and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Soo Jung Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Effective and reliable material and structure as bone implant have been a continuing challenge for scientists from bioengineering, material science and mechanical engineering. Porous titanium has reduced stiffness comparable to bone and open pores to allow complete bone infiltration, thus making it attractive for bone-replacement implants in biomedical engineering. To...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Huanlong Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Gram-negative bacterium <em> Vibrio cholerae </em> elicits disease through the export of enterotoxins. The <em> V. cholerae </em> RTX toxin was identified due its ability to cause cell rounding. Characterization of the RTX toxin demonstrated that this cell rounding was due to the depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton through...
- Keyword:
- Cysteine Protease, RTX Toxin, <em>Vibrio cholerae </em>, Actin Cross-linking, and Rho GTPases
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kerri-Lynn Sheahan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many methods have been proposed for estimating the number, $m_0$ (or the proportion, $\pi_0$), of the true null hypotheses for adaptively controlling a type I error rate (e.g., the false discovery rate or FDR) using a multiple test procedure. Most of these methods eliminate ``significantly" non-null $p$-values. Then $m_0$ is...
- Keyword:
- False discovery rate (FDR), Long-run FDR ($l$-FDR), Mixture model, Bias-correction, $p$-values, and EM algorithm
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Jiaxiao Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-10-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis interprets and critiques what is termed the 'myth of oneness' within the western philosophical and theological tradition, seeking to help transform South Korean Christianity, especially its perspective on other religions, and its attitude toward the reunification of Korea. Whitehead's process philosophy and its resulting theology, and the yin-yang...
- Keyword:
- theology, Whitehead, Korean Christianity, inter-religious dialogue, Yin-Yang, and theism
- Subject:
- Garrett/NU Joint Program
- Creator:
- Young Min Paik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While the rumors of "worship wars" dividing North American Protestantism are not news, ongoing questions remain concerning the effectiveness of trading in traditional organs for electric guitars and hymnals for PowerPoint. The recent availability of the largest, inter-faith-group, congregational-level data set (n=14,021) and theory development concerning the evolving attractive power...
- Keyword:
- contemporary worship service, strictness, and church marketing
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Ronda Oosterhoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- CD4-positive T cells express ligands for E- and P-selectins, carbohydrate-binding adhesion molecules that are induced on inflamed endothelium. The interaction between selectins and the selectin ligands facilitates the migration of T cells to sites of inflammation. The fucosyltransferase FucT-VII is essential for selectin ligand formation but the signaling and transcriptional...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Dimitrios G. Zisoulis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the legal, sociological and strategic dimensions of the illegitimate organizational field of cocaine from 1880 to 1930. Volume I includes a comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of the concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy. Building on existing theories, I also suggest a modest perspective for bringing consumer demand more fully...
- Keyword:
- Management and Organizations
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- James Judson Gillespie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Wnt signalling pathway is used multiple times throughout the development of an organism. Early in embryonic development this path is known to be involved in the induction of the ectodermally derived neural crest. The Wnt pathway is also thought to function in other ectodermal cell types. How the same...
- Keyword:
- Xenopus, Tcf3, ectoderm, Wnt, neural, and Lef1
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Elizabeth Yvette Truesdell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A Socratic ASK System: Helping educators provide a Web-based Socratic mentor for learners. An important role an educator can play in a learning environment is making learners aware of issues, nuances, and problems through Socratic questioning. Prior research has shown the potential of Socratic dialogue for increasing reflection and learning....
- Keyword:
- educational software, intelligent tutoring systems, reflection, computer assisted instruction, metacognition, and mentoring
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Baba Kofi Adam Cooper Puryear Adam Cooper Puryear
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Regulation of cell cycle and cell death are critical for normal cellular proliferation, tissue homeostasis, animal development, and the pathogenesis of human diseases such as cancer. Irregularities in cell cycle and cell death may result in tumorigenesis. In this dissertation, I describe my studies of a novel gene C53, which...
- Keyword:
- Mitosis, Cell Cycle, G2/M checkpoint, Cell Death, and C53
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Hai Jiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Counteranion effects on the rate and stereochemistry of propylene polymerization mediated by ion-pair complexes derived from dimethylzirconocene precatalysts activated with strongly Lewis-acidic perfluoroarylmetalloid cocatalyst/activators are shown to arise from the strength of the cation-anion interaction. This is quantified using CS-symmetric Me2C(Cp)(Flu)ZrMe2 (Cp = C5H4, &#951;5 cyclopentadienyl; Flu = C13H8, &#951;5...
- Keyword:
- cocatalyst, polyolefin, microstructure, ion pair, metallocene, and polymerization
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- John Andrew Stevens Roberts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-11-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study examines contemporary theatrical, filmic, and pictorial representations of Heinrich von Kleist's 1807 novella, "The Marquise of O--." It particularly focuses on the development of a solo music theatre production by a team of German/American, independent theatre artists, of which I was one, in the auditorium of the German...
- Keyword:
- Music theater, solo performance, movement theater, feminist theater, and physical theater
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Lisa Tatiana Parkins
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Arsenic trioxide exhibits potent antitumor effects in vitro and in vivo, and is widely used in the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in humans. In addition to APL, arsenic is of potential therapeutic value for the treatment of other hematologic malignancies, including chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). There is evidence...
- Keyword:
- Signal Transduction In Malignant Cells
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Nick Giafis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Martha, World's, Fair, Lowe, Perry, Olive, Femina , Pine, and Biblioteca
- Creator:
- Nicole Amiridis
- Owner:
- Nicole Rebecca Amiridis
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2018
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- Keyword:
- Civil War, Confederacy, Cult of the Lost Cause, Margaret Junkin Preston, nineteenth-century American poetry, Beechenbrook, and epic
- Creator:
- Pascale Carrel
- Owner:
- Pascale Ines Dombrowski Carrel
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/08/2018
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- Description:
- Image creation is an attempt to record a scene for presentation to a viewer. However, there is a precarious mapping between how a scene would be perceived and how an image is perceived. For example, although the human visual system does not have a strong absolute sense of color or...
- Keyword:
- rendering, computer graphics, and image processing; perception
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Amy Ashurt Gooch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Research shows that the most effective way to teach learners targeted skills is to put them in the kinds of situations in which they need to use them and to provide experts who are able to advise learners when necessary (Schank & Cleary, 1995). Through this process, learners come to...
- Keyword:
- role play, simulation, case-based, Goal-Based Scenario, and instructional design
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Kimberli Aiko Macpherson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-06-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the process of development of a multicellular organism, cells must make stable, binary fate decisions in response to intercellular signaling. A critical question is how weak or transient activation of signaling pathways achieves a robust and long-term switch in gene expression, and thus determines cell fate. I report that...
- Keyword:
- Biology and Genetics
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Xin Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The formation of neuronal inclusions is one of the hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases. These structures are composed of aggregated proteins, molecular chaperones, and components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Co-localization of aggregated proteins with cell-homeostasis maintaining machinery indicates that the cell may be failing in an attempt to clear these...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Kwame Nyanten Mensah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-11-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The polymerization of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, into insoluble filaments is common to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in a variety of dementias. The conformational change required for tau to transition from soluble monomers to filamentous AD pathology involves the extreme N-terminus of tau coming into contact with other regions of...
- Keyword:
- Alzheimer's disease, tangle, N-terminus, frontotemporal dementia, and tau
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Peleg Moshe Horowitz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-11-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an ethnography that uses semi-structured interviews, field notes, and participant observation to explore how two religious congregations respond to survivors of domestic violence. I interviewed twenty-two parishioners including domestic violence survivors, clergy and bystanders. I transcribed these interviews verbatim using Agar's method of transcript handling. I used...
- Keyword:
- Domestic Violence, Feminist, Ethics, Religion, Relational Psychology, and Jung
- Subject:
- Garrett/NU Joint Program
- Creator:
- Dorothy Ann Valin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-10-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Four series of doped CdO thin films have been grown on both amorphous glass and single-crystal MgO(100) substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), and their phase structure, microstructure, electrical, and optical properties investigated. Epitaxial films grown on single-crystal MgO(100) exhibit biaxial, highly textured microstructures. These as-deposited doped CdO thin...
- Keyword:
- epitaxial, doping, CdO, TCO, MOCVD, and Thin films
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Shu Jin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Chapter 1, a series of "constrained geometry" organoactinide complexes, (CGC)An(NMe)2 (CGC = Me2Si(h5-Me4C5)(tBuN); An = Th, 1; U, 2), prepared via efficient in situ, two-step protodeamination routes in good yields and high purity, is presented. Both 1 and 2 are quantitatively converted to the neutrally charged, solvent-free dihalides (1-Cl2,...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Inorganic (0488)
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Bryan D Stubbert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation