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- RNA interference (RNAi) is a newly discovered gene control pathway that silences gene expression in response to double-stranded RNA. This sequence-specific downregulation occurs at the level of mRNA stability, and is directed by the double-stranded RNA trigger itself. RNAi can be separated into two distinct steps; during the initiation phase,...
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- Chemistry and Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Janice Lynn Pellino
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis comprises three essays addressing theory and evidence on the household response to tax-favored saving incentive schemes, with a particular emphasis on household risk taking. The US tax code and related regulatory institutions offer a variety of incentives to encourage US households to save and participate in risky investment...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Damien Leslie Moore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human gamma-herpesvirus that primarily infects B cells and epithelial cells. While the glycoproteins required for entry into these two cell types differ, the gH/gL glycoprotein complex is essential for entry into both epithelial and B cells. Analysis of gH protein sequences from three gamma-herpesviruses: EBV,...
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- Molecular and Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jasmina Omerovic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation is composed of readings of four novellas: two by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller and two by the English novelist George Eliot. It focuses on the motif and concept of treasure (Schatz). Beginning with the figurative and rhetorical employment of "treasure" in the stories, each reading proceeds to...
- Keyword:
- english literature, general literature, german literature, novella, and comparative literature
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Teresa Ritterhoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation expands on the existing disclosure theory by considering the monitoring role of a firm's disclosure as well as recognizing how a firm's disclosure is influenced by the firm's monitoring mechanisms. The first chapter of the dissertation examines the effect of corporate governance on a firm's earnings reporting process....
- Keyword:
- Disclosure and Corporate governance
- Subject:
- Accounting Information and Management
- Creator:
- Ramanan Natarajan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The representation and communication of spatial information is important to the functioning of children and adults in the physical world. Yet little research has included both areas in the same studies. This research program was designed to investigate both the communication and representation of spatial information within a developmental context....
- Keyword:
- Psychology and Cognitive
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Amanda Grace Schaal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The stratigraphic record of the Phanerozoic provides key evidence of temporal changes in the global carbon cycle over the past 560 myr of Earth history. Measurements of carbon concentrations in ancient marine sediment, in conjunction with a chronological framework, provide a means to reconstruct burial flux history and, thus, evaluate...
- Keyword:
- sea-level, cyclostratigraphy, marl, Coniacian, chalk, and Santonian
- Creator:
- Robert Eric Locklair
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines the impact of product returns on effective supply chain management. Within this area of research, known as Closed-Loop Supply Chain Management, we consider both strategic and tactical level reverse logistics and inventory management problems from the perspective of a firm which must efficiently process returned items. More...
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- Industrial and Engineering
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Kristin Marie Sahyouni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The [(salen)CrCl + LB] catalyst system was found to be a highly active catalyst system for the [aziridine + CO<sub>2</sub>] coupling reaction, and exhibited a marked preference for the formation of 5-substituted oxazolidinone product, especially in the absence of cocatalyst. The activity of this catalyst system is optimized by modifying...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Organic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Aaron W Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ubiquitin-proteasome system degrades regulatory proteins and thereby controls a broad range of cellular processes such as the cell cycle, DNA-repair, gene transcription and signal transduction. The proteasome typically degrades its substrates completely into small peptides. However, biological exceptions do occur. For example, the activity of a handful of transcriptional...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry, Biology, and Cell
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Tian Lin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work described here includes both fundamental and application based studies centered around the use of plasmonic sensors. Fundamental studies focus on probing the optical properties of nanosphere lithography (NSL) fabricated Ag nanoparticles, while surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensors are applied to identify and characterize artists' red dye and red...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry and Physical Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alyson Victoria Whitney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- UV Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate hydrocarbons-zeolite systems, including the coke formation mechanism during MTH reactions, the sorbet-framework interactions and the quantitative analysis of catalytic reactions. First, methanol, dimethyl ether and ethylene reactions were carried out on H-MFI with different Si/Al atomic ratios to study the coke...
- Keyword:
- Quantitative Raman Analysis, UV Raman, Coke, Benzene in MFI, and MTH
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chao Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Assets are ubiquitous, required for consumer behaviors and meaningful in American society. Though assets have a central role in society, they have been considered primarily for what they can buy. This continual focus on assets as an instrument for exchange masks the fact that assets also may serve as a...
- Keyword:
- Consumer Motivations, Gift-giving, Intergenerational Bridging Reciprocity, Asset Gifting, and Budgeting
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Tonya P Williams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- It has commonly been observed that a person's performance on a self-regulation activity is often impaired when he or she has already performed a prior task that requires substantial self-regulation, a phenomenon termed as the regulatory depletion effect. The prevailing explanation for this effect, as reported in the literature, is...
- Keyword:
- Positive Affect, Depletion, and Monitoring
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Wen Wan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the development and use of novel chemical affinity templates to direct the assembly and preserve the activity of biological molecules in surface- and solution-based biomolecular assays. The majority of work described herein focuses on advancing biological nanoarray technology to enable the study of fundamentally important biological processes...
- Keyword:
- biorecognition, metal ions, surface, nanoarrays, microscopy, scanning, probe, and viruses
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Rafael Angel Vega
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A comprehensive understanding of human memory requires both cognitive and neural descriptions of memory processes along with a conception of how memory processing drives behavioral responses and subjective experiences. Noninvasive neuroimaging techniques have greatly extended our understanding of the functional characteristics of human memory, and how neural events give rise...
- Keyword:
- Neuroscience and Biology
- Subject:
- Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Joel Lawrence Voss
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- "Prufrock" to <em>The Waste Land</em>: T. S. Eliot's Periodical Publications, 1915-1922 Randall J. Woods This dissertation presents, in publication date order, the 167 articles published by T. S. Eliot from 1915 to 1922, most of which have never been reprinted. They include literary criticism, book reviews, poetry, philosophical essays, humorous...
- Keyword:
- The Waste Land, Georgian Poetry, Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, and J. C. Squire
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Randall J. Woods
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Physiological linkage (i.e., the covariation of moment-to-moment physiology between individuals) is thought to play an important role in relationship functioning. The present study examined physiological linkage across interbeat interval (IBI) and skin conductance levels (SCL) in a sample of married spouses (N=106) during both a pleasant and a conflict conversation...
- Keyword:
- marriage, physiological linkage, and emotional experience
- Subject:
- Psychology and Biology
- Creator:
- In Jung Jang, Claudia M. Haase, Ryan C. Svoboda, and Kuan-Hua Chen
- Contributor:
- Claudia Haase (advisor)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Description:
- Expanding on research done on the mental health and happiness benefits associated with romantic relationships, this study investigates whether identity denial, the experience of being socially denied one’s chosen identity by having others refuse to acknowledge that identity, presents a challenge for bisexual people within committed romantic relationships. For straight,...
- Keyword:
- bisexuality, mental health, self-concept clarity, sexual minorities, Relationships, and identity denial
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hannah E. Savitz, Wendi L. Gardner, and Alexandra Garr-Schultz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by flashbacks of the traumatic event and high comorbidity with major depressive disorder (MDD). Prior stress is known to increase the likelihood of developing PTSD after experiencing a traumatic event. Currently, PTSD is diagnosed clinically, its biological etiology is not known...
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- stress-enhanced fear learning, Genetic model of depression, contextual fear conditioning, Corticosterone, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Rats, mineralocorticoid receptor, and Glucocorticoid receptor
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Lim PH, Redei EE, and Sophia Jenz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Anxiety disorders are the most common group of mental illnesses in the United States and affect over 15% of the population. Prior work utilizing electroencephalogram (EEG) to investigate event-related potentials (ERPs) from the scalp has shown success in isolating certain neural correlates related to increased risk for developing anxiety disorders....
- Keyword:
- electrophysiology, reward, neuroscience, EEG, SPN, MRI, ERP, and affective
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Andrew R. Kittleson, C. Robin Nusslock, and James E. Glazer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Given any polyhedron in R3, we can cut it open along its edges, flatten it out, and obtain a polygon in the plane R2. In this project, we explored the opposite process, an open question that was first posed about 70 years ago: given a polygon in R2, what is...
- Keyword:
- Geometry, Mathematics, Dynamical system, and 3D polyhedra
- Creator:
- Yuxi Han
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 system shows promise as a genome-editing tool to treat human disease. It is integral to understand the binding and unbinding kinetics of Cas9 to its target DNA to study specificity of the Cas9 protein. Standard practices involve the use of negatively charged polymer Heparin to reduce unspecific...
- Keyword:
- Biotechnology, Cas9, and CRISPR
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Ulrich Rant, Felix Kröner, and Anam Furrukh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Due to their ability to be engineered for specific cellular targeting, nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as promising drug delivery vessels for immunotherapeutic and vaccination treatments. However, a major unsolved obstacle for cell-specific nanoparticle delivery is non-specific circulatory clearance by the mononuclear-phagocytic system(MPS). Comprised of various phagocytic cells, the MPS removes...
- Keyword:
- Antigen Presenting Cells, Immunotherapy, Nanoparticle Surface Charge, Nanoparticle Morphology, Cell-Specific Nanoparticle Delivery, and PEG-bl-PPS
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Nicholas Karabin, Yufan Yang, and Evan Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- This study aims to advance our basic understanding of how we perceive objects in our environment. It’s unclear whether we understand object structure based on only how we perceive or on how it truly exists in the world. Examining eye-movements provides insight into how our visual system represents and understands...
- Keyword:
- retinal space, object structure, perceived size, eye tracking, perceived space, perception, retinal, and configural shape illusion
- Subject:
- Cognitive Science
- Creator:
- Adina Cianciotto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- In indoor environments, bacteria face selective pressure to carry antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) from antimicrobial substances used in furniture, building materials, and personal care products. Humans rely on antibiotics to clear bacterial infections, so understanding the way in which these genes are transferred, i.e., on mobile genetic elements, is critical....
- Keyword:
- Gene Transfer, Indoor Environment, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, Conjugation Assays, Disc Diffusion Tests, Polymerase Chain Reaction, and Indoor Microbiome
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Sarah Ben Maamar, Taylor Brown, Adam Glawe, and Erica Hartmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- With a large sphere of activity and ability to transfer data through wireless communication system, drones have proven to be more and more useful in both research and manufacturing. Whether by allowing researchers to collect measurements or filmmakers to attain aerial shots, the use of drone has allowed collection of...
- Keyword:
- smartphone, drone, environmental, water management, and minimum human labor
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Alberta Yoo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Previous research has shown that bodily gesture aids in learning words and is useful for musical expression. However, no studies to date have examined the use of gesture in learning words and music together. The original impetus for the present study was observing students with cognitive disabilities learn musical songs,...
- Keyword:
- iconic gesture, immediate recall, song, lyrics, and memory
- Creator:
- Keishel Xinzhen Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Skeletal sexual dimorphism presents itself in humans primarily through the anatomical shape of the cranium and pelvis. However, some physical anthropologists maintain that climate could have an effect on human sexual dimorphism. Despite ongoing research pertaining to climatic effects on soft tissue or size dimorphism, little to no research has...
- Keyword:
- biological anthropology, climate, human skeletal anatomy, and sexual dimorphism
- Subject:
- Biological Anthropology
- Creator:
- Maria Feiler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Patients with psychosis experience deficits in multisensory integration (MSI), or the communication between different sensory modalities, such as sound and sight. One way to assess multisensory integrations is by utilizing voice-pitch tasks in which participants hear the pitch of their own voice artificially altered by a computer. When healthy individuals...
- Keyword:
- biomarker, vulnerability, sensorimotor integration, schizophrenia, and NCP
- Creator:
- Amy Lieberman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as complicit agents in processes of upscaling and gentrification connected to the political and economic elite. My thesis challenges the conventional narrative by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to local, community- based interests, and...
- Keyword:
- social movements, ethnography, culture, art worlds, urban studies, and sociology
- Creator:
- Shira Zilberstein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Negative emotional behaviors, such as criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling, that spouses may show during conflict are key predictors of marital dissatisfaction. Existing research has focused on middle-class couples, but little is known about how these negative emotional behaviors predict marital satisfaction among couples from socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. The present...
- Keyword:
- Conflict, SPAFF, Marriage, Emotions, and Emotional Behavior
- Creator:
- Jordyn Ricard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The goal of this research paper is to analyze concepts of armed conflict and peacebuilding from a gender perspective using a feminist epistemology approach. I examine the impact of armed conflict on women, and the implications of women’s roles in armed conflict and in peacebuilding processes post-conflict. In doing so,...
- Keyword:
- conflict, gender equality, Nepal, peace, and women
- Subject:
- International Studies
- Creator:
- Nina Sedeño
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- In the Marvel Comics series Moon Knight, a mercenary believes an ancient Egyptian deity has brought him back from the dead so he can become the eponymous superhero. However, the mercenary’s symptoms of schizophrenia suggest he is instead simply suffering from a psychological break. From 1975-1999, Moon Knight stories used...
- Keyword:
- Marvel, Comic Book, Religion, Comics, and Superhero
- Creator:
- Matthew Griffin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Over the last decades, there have been many changes in the business world that are associated with 52 percent of Fortune 500 companies either going bankrupt, being acquired by other companies, or ceasing to exist. One critical change is the transformation of the economy into a knowledge-based economy, where information...
- Keyword:
- learning organizations, leaders, and personal qualities
- Subject:
- Learning and Organizational Change
- Creator:
- Maria Christina Loi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- It has been hypothesized that mindfulness-based programs with a primary focus on teaching self-compassion or empathy will have greater effects on self-compassion and empathy than will mindfulness-based exposure programs, which focus primarily on enhancing present moment awareness and reducing distress. However, because research on mindfulness-based exposure programs has centered on...
- Keyword:
- meditation, exposure, empathy, self-compassion, and mindfulness
- Creator:
- Victoria Steigerwald
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- When navigating through space, the brain must integrate sensory information with past experiences to choose behaviors that are most likely to produce a positive outcome. Striatal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) expressing dopamine receptor 1 (D1) and dopamine receptor 2 (D2) receive sensory and motor information from cortical and midbrain regions...
- Keyword:
- basal ganglia, dopamine, striatum, navigation, calcium imaging, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Mark Howe and Alyssa Larios
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Description:
- There are few concerns greater than those of a parent with an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability (I/DD). How is she or he going to be taken care of as she or he ages? The government provides services and support in the pursuit of care and services, but...
- Keyword:
- disability, social policy, I/DD, intellectual and developmental disability, Illinois, and disability policy
- Creator:
- Camille Cooley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster and Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Al-Punch
- Creator:
- David Boyk
- Owner:
- David Boyk
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Location:
- Patna
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1215/1089201x-4390003
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- Keyword:
- Bass Trombone, Grant Reed, To be or not to be, Henri Tomasi, Luis Fred, Rachel Trumbore, Sine Nomine Trombone Quartet, Tuba , and Scott Nguyen
- Creator:
- Grant Reed, Luis Fred, Rachel Trumbore, Henri Tomasi (1901-1971), Scott Nguyen (bass trombone), and Sine Nomine Trombone Quartet
- Owner:
- Luis F Fred
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
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- Keyword:
- Quartet, Trombone, and Bozza
- Creator:
- Grant Reed, Eugene Bozza (1905-1991), Luis Fred, Rachel Trumbore, Sine Nomine Trombone Quartet, and Scott Nguyen
- Owner:
- Luis F Fred
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
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- Keyword:
- Yoko Yamada, Luis Fred, Trombone, Morales Matos, and Fantasy
- Creator:
- Yoko Yamada, Luis Fred, and José Mariano Morales-Matos (b.1960)
- Owner:
- Luis F Fred
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
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- Keyword:
- Yoko Yamada, Sulek, Sonata, Luis Fred, Trombone, and Vox Gabrieli
- Creator:
- Yoko Yamada, Luis Fred, and Stjepan Sulek (1914-1986)
- Owner:
- Luis F Fred
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
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- Description:
- In the Western classical art music tradition, a high level of music performance is achieved at the intersection of a musician's emotional, cognitive, and physical processes. Expert classical musicians have both an aural imagining of the sound they intend to produce and the physical associations of what it feels like...
- Keyword:
- Applied Lessons
- Subject:
- French Horn, Horn, Pedagogy, Music, and Education
- Creator:
- Jena Gardner
- Owner:
- Jena Elise Gardner
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-06-19
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- Description:
- Since the beginning of the 21st century, the idea of building a Latin American musical discourse has returned to the artistic discussion, taking into account the peculiarities of cultural syncretism that manifest in the different countries of the region. From the most diverse aesthetics and through different musical media, a...
- Keyword:
- Latin American Music, Cultural Studies, Identity, Sociology of Music
- Creator:
- Jose Miguel Arellano
- Owner:
- Jose Miguel Arellano
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- technology, video games, and multimedia
- Creator:
- Sean Yeh
- Owner:
- Sean Yeh
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/15/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/22/2018
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- Description:
- The variable effects of self-awareness may be a result of multiple states of awareness being condensed under the umbrella term, "self-awareness". We posit that the cognitive and behavioral effects of self-awareness are largely dependent on another variable, level of abstraction, which modulates self-awareness on a continuum between conceptual and perceptual...
- Keyword:
- self abstraction, face recognition, perspective taking, self awareness, and performance
- Subject:
- Pscyhology
- Creator:
- Eric Lee Smith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spontaneous regeneration in the adult mammalian central nervous system is rare, minimal, and generally does not lead to substantial functional recovery. Tissue engineering strategies to promote nerve regeneration aim to provide an environment that is physically and chemically engineered to enhance tissue formation. Strategic design of this environment is crucial...
- Keyword:
- protein delivery, nerve bridges, PLG, spinal cord regeneration, and NT-3
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Yang Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The study of granular matter is both scientifically intriguing and industrially important, yet it presents several unique characteristics and challenges. The discrete nature of granular materials often precludes the use of the continuum descriptions that are so commonly used for fluids, so alternative methods must be developed. Particles interact via...
- Keyword:
- A Nano to Macro Study of Friction and Adhesion in Granular Materials
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Benjamin L Severson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The detection of bio-molecules (e.g. nucleic acids and proteins) is the bedrock upon which research in the life sciences and diagnostic medicine rests. For nucleic acids, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the ultimate in terms of target detection sensitivity (10s - 100s of copies/sample). For proteins, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent...
- Keyword:
- biomolecular detection, prostate, nanoparticles, and nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Colby Shad Thaxton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The porphyrazines (pzs), a class of porphyrin derivatives, have shown potential as therapeutic and imaging agents due to a combination of their near-IR absorbance/fluorescence and their enhanced chemical flexibility. Cell viability/proliferation assays and fluorescence microscopy were carried out in both tumor and normal cells to characterize the biological activity of...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hong Zong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Frictionless Information Systems (FIS) are a class of software systems that automatically bring users information and services related to what they are doing. These systems bridge the gap between the information a user wants and the repositories that contain the information - making the user more effective and informed. By...
- Keyword:
- relevance assessment, query formation, agents, information retrieval, and result processing
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Sanjay Chand Sood
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Downsizings are now so pervasive that millions of Americans are laid off each year with the stated purpose of improving their organizations' financial outcomes. However, one of the unforeseen negative consequences of downsizings is high attrition by employees who "survive" the layoffs. This dissertation seeks to extend our understanding of...
- Keyword:
- perceived supervisor support, turnover, retention, perceived organizational support, downsizings, and organizational commitment
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Robin Adair Erickson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The emergence of antimicrobial resistance and the growing concern to produce new drugs have influenced an increase in the amount of research directed towards the engineering of novel polyketides. The polyketide carbon backbone is synthesized by a set of enzymes known as polyketide synthases (PKSs). These catalyze the formation of...
- Keyword:
- automatic network generation
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Joanna González-Lergier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hypoxia is a reduction in the normal level of oxygen tension and occurs during acute and chronic vascular disease, pulmonary disease, and cancer. The key transcription factor that regulates the cellular responses to hypoxia is hypoxia-inducible-factor-1 (HIF-1). Understanding how HIF-1 is regulated is fundamental for understanding the biology of tumor...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
- Creator:
- Brooke Michele Emerling
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses the process-pathways running between immigrant adolescents' life experiences and their engagement in school by providing an ecocultural perspective on self-regulation. While the role of social context, such as stress and resources, has been identified as critical in its influence on different dimensions of adolescent development, research on...
- Keyword:
- Development, Problem Solving, Adolescence, Stress, Self-Regulation, and Culture
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Helen Julia Eksner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies two long-standing asset pricing anomalies: "Value and Growth Effects" and "Momentum Effects" via the channel of market imperfections. These market imperfections stem from basic information asymmetry problem, and take forms of contracting problems and less than perfectly competitive information intermediaries. The first essay (joint with Zhi Da)...
- Keyword:
- Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Pengjie Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis concerns the development of robust algorithms for large-scale nonlinear programming. Despite recent advancements in high-performance computing power, classes of problems exist that continue to challenge the practical limits of contemporary optimization methods. The focus of this dissertation is the design and analysis of algorithms intended to achieve economy...
- Keyword:
- inexact linear system solvers, large-scale optimization, Krylov subspace methods, and constrained optimization
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Frank Edward Curtis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ready-mix concrete industry is a fascinating laboratory for the study of industry dynamics. Concrete plants produce a single homogeneous product with technology and equipment that has changed little over the last 50 years. Building a plant entails substantial sunk costs since the machinery used to produce ready-mix cannot easily...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Allan Collard-Wexler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Nature often uses reaction-diffusion(RD) as a means of making structures and materials of unique properties or morphologies on scales from macro- (e.g., stripes in zebras, tigers, and seashells, and formations in trees, agates, and rocks) to microscopic (e.g., cellular growth, chemotaxis and biological waves). However, reaction-diffusion phenomena have not yet...
- Keyword:
- Reaction-Diffusion and Microstructured Materials
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Christopher James Campbell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bosnian women war refugees are not only trauma survivors, but are actively engaged in economic and social practices that shape their American sites of relocation. These economic activities--wage labor, and unremunerated volunteer and kin labor--are embedded in a moral framework of mutual obligation rooted in the concept veze / connections,...
- Keyword:
- Migration, Gender, Refugees, Chicago, Moral Economy, and Bosnia
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Christiana Croegaert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an environment rich in structural and signaling molecules, including growth factors and cytokines. Together, these signals are capable of changing cellular morphology and gene expression in response to extracellular environmental cues. Structural proteins in the ECM such as laminin transduce their signals through integrin receptors...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- 20070515
- Creator:
- Catherine Czeisler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Motivated by applications to microfluidic separation systems like Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) and Capillary Electrochromatography (CEC), the research described in this dissertation analyzes through numerical and asymptotic methods the effect of variation in the wall zeta potential (or surface charge) on the electroosmotic flow field in a microchannel and the effect...
- Keyword:
- asymptotic, adsorption, microfluidics, separation, dispersion, and electrokinetic
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Subhra Datta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The classic error bounds for quasi-Monte Carlo approximation follow the Koksma-Hlawka inequality based on the assumption that the integrand has finite variation. Unfortunately, not all functions have this property. In particular, integrands for common applications in finance, such as option pricing, do not typically have bounded variation. In contrast to...
- Keyword:
- Low discrepancy Sequences, Option Pricing, Quasi-Monte Carlo methods, Numerical integration, LIBOR Market Model, and Error Bounds
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Xuefeng Jiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Part 1. The complex folded structures associated with RNA allow for specific protein-RNA interactions and also create binding sites for small molecules. Developing organic molecules that can bind RNA with high affinity and specificity is a challenge that must be overcome for RNA to be considered a viable drug target....
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Graham R Lawton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- It's quite common for the novice musician to forget their place in the song, miss the change to a new section, or be unable to play in the key or at the tempo chosen by the leader. Every type of improvisational playing requires the player to follow a set of...
- Keyword:
- technology, music, education, computer aided instruction, and jazz
- Subject:
- Music Technology
- Creator:
- Marc Jacoby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of the synthesis and photophysical characterization of chlorophyll- and porphyrin- based multichromophore arrays designed for the purpose of studying energy and charge transfer therein. The first series of arrays consists of donor-acceptor dyads in which various arylene diimide electron acceptors are attached through a phenyl group to...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Richard Forrest Kelley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We prove the L<SUP>2</SUP>-convergence of polynomial ergodic averages of multiple commuting transformations for totally ergodic systems. We show that for each set of polynomials, each average is controlled by a particular characteristic factor introduced by Host and Kra, which is an inverse limit of nilsystems. We then investigate for which...
- Keyword:
- dynamical systems and ergodic theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Michael Charles Reed Johnson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Initial studies described the ability of CD4+CD25+ T regulatory (Treg) cells in suppressing autoimmune diseases in animal models. An emerging interest has focused on the potential role of Treg cells in cancer development and progression as they have been shown to suppress anti-tumor immunity. In the present study, CD4+CD25- T...
- Keyword:
- Biology
- Subject:
- Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Victoria Chunyan Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The general goal of this dissertation research was to examine linguistic and cognitive mechanisms in foreign vocabulary learning within theoretical frameworks of working memory and connectionist word processing models. In Study 1, the effect of bimodal (auditory-and-visual) vs. unimodal (auditory-only) presentation on foreign word learning was examined at different levels...
- Keyword:
- working memory, bilingualism, word learning, connectionism, phonology, and bilingual advantage
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology
- Creator:
- Margarita Kaushanskaya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Supramolecular chemistry has proven to be an effective strategy for bottom-up fabrication of monodisperse, functional nanostructures. However, most applications require these nanostructures to be spatially or orientationally ordered. This thesis investigates patterning and spatial confinement as tools for controlling order in self-assembling systems. We first look to improve the ordering...
- Keyword:
- Alignment, Order, Lithography, and Self-Assembly
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Albert M Hung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The aim of the present investigation was to examine the nature of individuals' parasocial relationships (one-sided attachments to media figures, Horton & Wohl, 1956). Five studies were designed to assess the prevalence and strength of individuals' attachments to their favorite television characters, manipulate exposure to the character or control targets,...
- Keyword:
- media, parasocial relationships, and belonging needs
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Megan Lynn Knowles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a comprehensive study on mutual fund flows and the portfolio liquidity of mutual funds. The dissertation is organized into three chapters. In the first chapter, I consider the problem of aligning the incentives between the mutual fund investor and the mutual fund manager. I show that the...
- Keyword:
- Mutual Fund Flows, Mutual Funds, and Liquidity
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Grace Koo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Theoretical studies on electronic structure governing charge transport properties are investigated to understand and improve the prediction of electron charge carrier organic semiconductors used in field-effect transistors. Perfluorinated oligothiophene semiconductors have shown experimental n-type behavior, but placement of fluorinated aryl groups changes charge polarities. Models were developed to investigate how...
- Keyword:
- Physical and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Sharon E Koh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Homotopy Gerstenhaber structure is shown to exist on the deformation complex of a morphism of associative algebras. The main step of the construction is extension of a B-infinity algebra by an associative algebra. Actions of B-infinity algebras on associative and B-infinity algebras are analyzed, extensions of B-infinity algebras by associative...
- Keyword:
- associative algebras and Deformations
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Dennis Borisov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the transformation of the city-state of Florence from a republic to a principality during the first half of the sixteenth century. It explores how this fundamental change in political organization altered the culture and society of the Florentine office-holding class. The dissertation describes the course of socio-cultural...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Nicholas Scott Baker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation deploys an interdisciplinary methodology, extending what is conventionally understood as discourse to include performance. It brings together the fields of performance studies, discourse analysis and theatre studies to document, contextualize, and analyze the events after the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992. It examines gang youth who turned to...
- Keyword:
- Anna Deavere Smith, performance studies, gangs, African American Studies, Los Angeles riots, and grass roots activism
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Kamran Afary
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The current research tested the principles of role congruity theory of prejudice, which states that prejudice arises from an incongruity between a group stereotype and social role characteristics (i.e., the attributes and behaviors prescribed by the social role), such that prejudice occurs when members of a group enter or attempt...
- Keyword:
- people with mental illness, gender, prejudice, and role incongruity
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Anne M. Koenig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Studies on consolidated democracies have long concluded that there is a positive relationship between socioeconomic status and turnout. The strength of the empirical findings that linked electoral participation to socioeconomic variables elevated this correlation to a law-like principle and made it possible to assume that this electoral behavior would prevail...
- Keyword:
- socioeconomic status, USA, Mexico, Elections, and turnout
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Irina Natalia Alberro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a study of the figure of the intruder in postcolonial francophone literature, film and graphic novels published and released in the second half of the 20th and early 21st century which develop a discourse on the Maghreb or the Maghrebian dispora in France. Postcolonial critics have long...
- Keyword:
- Francophone, French, Intruder, North Africa, and Postcolonial
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Taieb Berrada
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study examines the intersection between art and politics in the salons of Les XX, a group of some twenty, mostly Belgian, artists organizing international exhibitions of art in Brussels, Belgium between 1884 and 1893. The fact that Les XX derived a significant base of support from some of the...
- Keyword:
- Art History
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Leah Boston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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. Examples from...
- Keyword:
- musical arts
- Subject:
- Composition
- Creator:
- Katherine Young
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Several phosphonate-functionalized molecular squares have been successfully synthesized, and the fabrication of multilayer films on both conductive and semiconducting platforms has been demonstrated. These films were grown using the well-documented zirconium phosphonate multilayer method. The layer-by-layer growth rate is uniform. Experiments suggest, however, that the molecular squares adopt a semi-collapsed...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- SonBinh T. Nguyen, Craig P. Schwartz, and Richard W. Gurney
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- The development and applications of organic/DNA molecules for the use of DNA detection systems are reported here. In particular, two different hybrids are synthesized: DNA/polymer hybrids and small-molecule DNA hybrids. DNA/polymer hybrids are especially useful considering that their functionality may be varied according to the polymer selected. The hybrids are...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Julianne Gibbs, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Jonathan R. Davila, and Christine Dettmer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- Recent research suggests that ultraviolet illumination is essential for the creation of monolayers of Undecylenic Acid Methyl Ester (UDAME), as it is believed that the UV illumination initiates the radical-chain polymerization. Samples created without UV illumination, however, also show signs of a monolayer. In this study, samples were analyzed using...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Michael Bedzyk, Hua Jin, and Christian K. Valley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- This research project explores two different processes that can be used to pattern organic molecules on silicon. In the first process, hydrogen-terminated silicon surfaces were anodized in nanometer scale with a contact-mode atomic force microscope (AFM). Anodization was done by applying a positive bias voltage to the surface with respect...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Donald Kramer, Mark C. Hersam, and Stephen Akuamoah
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- Feedback-controlled lithography (FCL) enables atomically precise patterning of individual molecules on the technologically significant Si(100)-2 x 1:H surface. However, because it is performed in an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) environment, FCL has thus far been restricted to surface chemistries that can be delivered in the gas phase. The present research attempts...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Andrew Baluch, Rajiv Basu, Nathan Guisinger, and Mark C. Hersam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- Transmission and reflection diffraction gratings were fabricated by micropatterning polymers on transparent substrates and drop-coating polymers onto etched silicon wafers. Exposure of these gratings to three nerve toxin mimics at very low concentrations resulted in mimic sorption by the polymers, changing the polymer’s refractive index. As a result, the grating’s...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Louisa Carr, Ryan Bailey, and Joseph Hupp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- The effects of 13 nm Au colloid and 10 nm Ag colloid on the growth of the yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae were compared to control samples cultured in a growth media of yeast extract, bacto peptone, and dextrose (YPD) to determine the toxicity of nanoparticles. Growth curves were generated for...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Desma N. Mitchell, Elizabeth Claudio, and Hilary Arnold Godwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2004
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- In modern medicine, physicians destroy otherwise healthy tissues in patients’ bodies because of the lack of site-target specificity and sensitivity in detecting and attacking cancerous cells. Many cancer patients are left with the difficult task of weighing the benefits against the harm of undergoing current cancer treatments. Members of the...
- Keyword:
- Volume 1
- Creator:
- Vinayak Dravid, Lei Fu, Darrius Guiden, and Ming Su
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2018
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- Chemists and physicists have been interested in the optical properties of metal nanoparticles since the time of Michael Faraday.1 New approximation techniques for different sizes and geometries have created renewed interest in and investigation of these particles. Many different arrays of particle extinctions of various shapes and sizes have been...
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- Volume 1
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- Anne Hawkinson, Shengli Zou, and George Schatz
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- While nanoscale device prototypes using carbon nanotubes abound, no mass production-scale technique exists for examining properties of a batch of nanotubes. Dielectrophoresis, on the other hand, has received much attention in the press as a method of separating and trapping particles. In this research, a method of developing mass production-scale...
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- Volume 1
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- Horacio Espinosa, Nicolaie Moldovan, and Matthew Pappas
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- Fullerene and inorganic fullerene-like nanotubes are molecules with the unique geometry of a single layer or multiple layers of a bulk material oriented in a tube. These molecules have novel mechanical properties and great potential in experimental systems for nanotechnology and nanodevices. The threedimensional atom-probe (3DAP) microscope is an atomic...
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- Volume 1
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- Brian Pasquini and David Seidman
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- The effects of Ru, W, and Re on the temporal evolution of the gamma prime precipitates in a Ni-Cr-Al alloy were investigated by threedimensional atom probe (3DAP) microscopy. The spatial distribution of the gamma prime precipitates in a model Ni-8.5Cr-10Al alloy was investigated using atomic force microscopy (AFM). We reported...
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- Volume 1
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- Dieter Isheim, Luis de la Cruz, Chantal Sudbrack, and David Seidman
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- This study investigated the precipitation strengthening of the binary Al-0.14wt% Sc, 0.16% Ti alloy system. Ingots of Al-2.1wt% Sc and Al-4.68wt% Ti were melted together, and the nucleation, growth, and coarsening of precipitates were analyzed. The microstructural evolution of the nanoscale L12 precipitates phase was examined with Vickers microhardness testing,...
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- Volume 1
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- Marsha Van Dalen, Arkadiusz Stachurski, Richard Karnesky, and David Seidman
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- Electron transfer theory predicts reorganization energy to be one factor that determines the electrochemical potential of a metal ion. This paper describes part of a study that aims to increase understanding of solvent reorganization energy in noncovalent systems by systematically varying the environment around a metal ion, specifically ruthenium. The...
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- Volume 2
- Creator:
- Thomas J. Meade, Amanda L. Eckermann, and Charlotte A. Mason
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive mental disorder that affects 23 million people worldwide. It is pathologically characterized by amyloid plaques and tau tangles that form in the brain. The hard, insoluble amyloid plaques develop from the naturally secreted amyloid beta peptide, which can also assemble into toxic oligomeric forms...
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- Volume 2
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- Sadiya Kahn
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- Every year millions of Americans go to the emergency room with symptoms of a heart attack. More than half a million Americans die each year of myocardial infarctions (MI) caused by coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD detection is currently limited to EKG analyses of electrical signals generated by the heart...
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- Volume 2
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- Chad Mirkin, Dimitra Georganopoulou, and Ada Lee
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- The optical properties of spherical gold nanoparticles are calculated using classical electrodynamics. The wavelength corresponding to maximum extinction shifts to longer wavelengths as the size of the nanoparticle is increased. The influence of higher-order multipoles is evident for large nanoparticles, making the spectra more complex. When the shell thickness of...
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- Volume 2
- Creator:
- Cleveland Eugene Rayford II, Kevin Shuford, and George Schatz
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- This paper explores the various approaches to time-resolved single nanoparticle spectroscopy. Due to the novelty of these types of experiments, several difficulties arise in creating a feasible physical setup capable of imaging single nanoparticles less than 100 nm in size. The various difficulties in setup and their attempted resolutions will...
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- Volume 2
- Creator:
- Greg Hartland, W. Paige Hall, Richard Van Duyne, and Hristina Petrova
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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