Body size is one of the most discernible ways in which animal species vary. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest animal on earth, can reach up to 30 m in length and weigh up to 200 tonnes. At the other extreme, a species of frog called Paedophryne amauensis is...
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Purpose: Research establishes the critical need to address the underrepresentation of women and racial/ethnic minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). While emergent research addresses similar challenges for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), this research remains scant and focuses on adult experiences. This analysis examines subgroup differences and... and ARCH Deposit Description:
Citation: Xavier Hall, C.D., Wood, C., Hurtado, M., BA, Moskowitz, D., Dyar, C., Mustanski, B., Identifying leaks in the STEM recruitment pipeline among sexual and gender minority secondary students: bullying, self-concept, perceived climate, and STEM intentions. PLOS ONE. (In Press)
Post-colonial nation-state building in Morocco required a homogenization of the Moroccan citizen linguistically, culturally, and religiously resulting in an Arabo-Islamic identity. The latter came at the expense of Amazigh (indigenous) people, languages, cultures, and identities. Despite the opportunist state language officialization and recognition in 2011, Tamazight’s (Amazigh language) dissemination in...
Medien, unsere Kolonialgeschichte und die Kolonialität unserer Gegenwart sind eng verwoben. Zuletzt erinnern Black Lives Matter oder gestürzte Statuen daran, vor welchem Hintergrund die europäischen Metropolen aufgebaut wurden. Aber was bedeutet diese Geschichte für die Medienwissenschaft? Medien waren nicht nur zentral für die Planung und Durchführung kolonisierender Missionen, in der...
This course assumes, with Spinoza, that affect is a modality of power. On this basis, it asks: How is affect involved in constituting, modulating and governing subjects? The seminar combines an affect theoretic framework in the tradition of Spinoza and Deleuze, also drawingon Foucault and Butler (among others), with work...
Adultismus beschreibt eine Diskriminierungsform, die Menschen dann erfahren, wenn sie we-niger ernst genommen werden, lediglich weil sie Kinder oder sehr jung sind. Damit einher geht ein strukturelles Machtungleichgewicht zwischen Altersgruppen. Der Alltag von Kindern zeich-net sich dadurch aus, dass andere über ihre Angelegenheiten bestimmen. Kinder haben weni-ger Rechte. In politischen...
Praktische Philosophie zielt in ihren Reflexionen sozialer und politischer Zusammenhänge meist auf eine ahistorische und universal ausgerichtete Argumentation ab. Es geht dann philo-sophisch u.a. um verallgemeinerbare normative Prinzipien oder eine allgemeingültige Theorie von Demokratie, Recht oder Menschsein. Postkoloniale Theorien machen seit gut 50 Jahren in verschiedensten Spielarten darauf auf-merksam, dass...
In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
Hasan Sijzi, also known as Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin.
As... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut. Specifically, Stan shows that these... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
In this course, we will investigate existentialist responses to experiences of crisis such as states of emergency and high risk, periods of uncertainty and struggle, and situations of injustice and racism. The seminar begins with the existentialist movement in 20th century Germany and France (Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre,...
Black people are particularly vulnerable to forms of social and premature death in the current crises of liberal democracies and neoliberal racial capitalism. The necropolitical regimes in the Mediterranean Sea, the Prison Industrial Complex, mass criminalization, policing and environmental racism are just some of the modalities of structural violence that...
Standpunkttheorien argumentieren, dass unser Wissen in bestimmten Bereichen von unserer sozialen Position abhängt. Sie sind die philosophische Grundlage von politischer Kritik, die mit Bezug auf die soziale Position argumentiert, wie beispielsweise antirassistische oder feministi-sche Kritiken. Zentral ist dabei, die hegemoniale Perspektive der Dominanzkultur, die sich als universell gültig versteht, als...
In the recent years, the relationship between race and digital technologies has gained new momentum.
Emergent forms of engineered inequalities, from the governance of life and death through biotechnologies
and algorithms to the commodification of bodies in platform capitalism or the biopolitical management of
b/ordering are now at the core...
Der Ökofeminismus ist in den 1980er Jahren entstanden und geht davon aus, dass feministische mit ökologischen Fragestellungen verbunden werden können bzw. dass sie eigentlich immer schon miteinander verbunden sind. Im Seminar setzen wir uns einerseits mit den Grundlagen des Ökofeminismus auseinander. Andererseits lesen wir aktuelle Texte zum Ökofeminismus, die insbesondere...
Als moderne Herrschaftsstruktur formte Kolonialismus nicht nur ökonomische, kulturelle und politische Beziehungen zwischen dem globalen Süden und dem globalen Norden. Er durchdrang auch intime Beziehungen, beförderte ein Wissen über begehrenswerte und deviante Körper und Lebensweisen und legitimierte staatliche Eingriffe und Regulierungen. Mit dem formalen Ende des Kolonialismus sind diese Mechanismen...
Im Seminar soll es um Care-Arbeit an der Intersektion zwischen Geschlecht und Generation gehen. Ziel des Seminars ist es, Care-Arbeit als Form gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe sichtbar zu machen und theoretisch einzuordnen.
Dabei sollen im Seminar die intersektionalen Verschränkungen zum Ausgangspunkt genommen werden. Davon ausgehend möchten wir fragen, wer in welchem Maße...
In diesem Seminar lernen wir unterschiedliche kritische Theorien kennen. Dabei wird uns zum einen die Frankfurter Tradition interessieren, zum anderen verschaffen wir uns einen Überblick über weitere Denkbewegungen: Poststrukturalistische Impulse, feministische, rassismuskritische und postkoloniale Theorien spielen ebenso eine Rolle wie Ansätze kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit Naturverhältnissen. Dafür wird das Blockseminar vier...
Als kulturelle Einheit, politisches Projekt und militärisch-ökonomische Macht hat Europa seit der Antike bis heute sehr unterschiedliche Rollen gespielt. Dabei waren die Definitionen dessen, was Europa ist, sowohl in geographischer Hinsicht als auch im Hinblick auf das kulturelle Selbstverständnis oder das subjektive Zugehörigkeitsgefühl ihrer Bewohner starken Schwankungen ausgesetzt. Zum einen...
Im deutschen Kontext findet Klasse als intersektionale Dimension sozialer Ungleichheit medial,
politisch und juristisch zunehmend Beachtung. Dies scheint der Forderung kapitalismuskritischer
Stimmen nachzukommen, die unterdrückte Frage nach den Klassenverhältnissen im neoliberalen
Kontext in den Vordergrund zu stellen (z.B. hooks 2000). Gleichzeitig warnen marxistische
Kritiker*innen vor einer verkürzten Diskussion, die Klasse...
Die marxistische Theorie stellt die Frage nach der revolutionären Überwindung kapitalistischer
Klassenverhältnisse, die die Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung der Arbeiter*innenklassen produzieren.
Feministische und postkoloniale Marxist*innen verweisen in diesem Zusammenhang auf die
vergeschlechtlichte und rassifizierte Dimension des Kapitalismus, die transnationale
Arbeiter*innenbewegungen verkomplizieren und vor die Aufgabe stellen, Kämpfe zu unbezahlter
Care-Arbeit und...
Since its institutional beginnings in the nineteenth century, sociology, self-defined as a science of the modern (Western) world, has conceptualized modernity endogenously by taking the social norms, structures, and values characterizing the so-called Western societies as a universal parameter for defining what modern societies are and the processes of their...
Die Angst aus den 1970ern vor einer „Überbevölkerung” oder dem dystopischen Narrativ einer „Bevölkerungsbombe” scheint heute vergessen zu sein. Bevölkerungsreduktion und Bevölkerungskontrolle sind in aktuellen Klima- und Entwicklungspolitiken zu Tabuwörtern deklariert worden – es geht vielmehr um reproduktive Rechte, Familienplanung und sexuelle Aufklärung. Gleichzeitig erstarken im Globalen Norden Initiativen und...
The current Corona crisis has (again) laid bare the differential logics at the heart of racial gendered
capitalism. Whether it be the continuing necropolitical responses to the flight and movement of
those rendered migrants, refugees and asylum seekers; the further expansion of neoliberal
securitization and policing alongside intersectional vectors of...
Dieses Proseminar nähert sich aus feministischer und
postkolonialer Perspektive den wichtigsten klassischen und modernen politischen
Theorien an und vermittelt grundlegende Fähigkeiten zu deren kritischer Reflexion.
Im Vordergrund stehen dabei Fragen von Demokratie und Gerechtigkeit im Kontext
von historischem Unrecht und dessen materiellen und symbolischen Nachwirkungen
in Politik und Wirtschaft der...
With growing system complexity and closer cyber-physical interaction, there are stronger needs for cyber-physical systems to adapt to the dynamic environment and improve their runtime performance. However, especially for safety-critical systems, the ability of such adaptation and improvement is often restricted by multiple factors, such as limited resources, stringent timing...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hundreds of Venetian women began musical training in childhood to become professional musicians, known as figlie di coro (daughters of the choir), in the four charitable Ospedali Maggiori. These women overcame childhood poverty and abandonment to awe prestigious guests with their skills and even...
This thesis consists of three chapters: two are empirical studies of policy design in small-business lending markets, while the final is a large-scale retrospective of retail mergers. Chapter 1 examines moral hazard in loan guarantee programs. To address credit constraints in small-business lending markets, policymakers frequently rely on loan guarantees,...
Cancer is a top leading cause of deaths worldwide, among which pancreatic cancer and liver cancer are top leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Despite recent developments in cancer treatment, pancreatic and liver cancers still have a high mortality and low life expectancy, especially when diagnosed at advanced stages. Earlier cancer...
This dissertation studies three aspects of healthcare market regulation.
Chapter 1 studies the optimal design of quality scores for health insurance plans. Regulators often generate quality scores to help consumers with limited information about product quality, as in schooling, healthcare, and financial markets. When designing scores, regulators must not only...
With the ever-increasing demand for more complex functionalities and miniaturization of photonic devices, the design of such devices requires a whole new different approach, deviating from classical photonic design approaches. Conventionally, the design of a typical photonic device starts with a prior knowledge, intuition, and practical experience of specific behavior...
This paper studies the joint importance of dissemination and the structure of firms’ information networks in the pricing of value relevant financial information. I first document that disruptions to the dissemination of information on Twitter.com cause the market to react less to earnings news. Using ten staggered Twitter outages, which...
In the adult hippocampus of many mammalian species, populations of newborn dentate granule cells (DGCs) are continuously generated and undergo subsequent activity-dependent neuronal maturation and incorporation into the preexisting hippocampal circuitry. Increasing evidence has demonstrated that these young adult-born DGCs (abDGCs) participate in numerous cognitive and affective processes such as...
My research at northwestern with Dr. Christina Zelano focused on the human amygdala subnucleithat receive monosynaptic input from the olfactory bulb. Surprisingly little is known
about these brain regions, including their potential roles in olfactory and nonolfactory
processing. During my PhD, I completed three projects aimed at furthering our understanding...
This dissertation develops a causal theory of the relevant alternatives in a situation and applies this theory to the semantics and epistemology of conditionals, the theory of knowledge, and the epistemology of stereotyping. The first chapter presents the theory of causal models and causal alternatives. The second chapter applies this...
Missing data are often described as an annoyance in research and generally presented as a source of error or bias during analysis. To this end, methods that center on planned missingness are an underappreciated and powerful tool that can actually be used to improve data collection and the validity of...
For stochastic simulation optimization in a modern computing era, we introduce a new parallel framework for solving very large-scale problems using a ranking & selection (R&S) approach that simulates all systems or feasible solutions to provide a global statistical guarantee. We propose a parallel adaptive survivor selection (PASS) framework that...
Myoelectric pattern recognition-based upper limb prostheses measure electromyographic (EMG) signals from the residual limb and learn to identify muscle activity patterns that correspond to intended gestures. To train an accurate pattern recognition controller, it is essential that the training signals typify signals measured in real-world scenarios. When these conditions are...
Individual responses are an important determinant of public policy effectiveness. Development policies often try to remove barriers that limit the ability to make the preferred choices, hoping that this will lead to prosperity at the individual and aggregate levels. However, removing some, but not all, barriers can lead to undesirable...
This dissertation centers gay and lesbian activists, their lawyers, and public interest litigation organizations in a genealogical understanding of the evolution of human rights law in the LGBTIQ+ issue space. I ask why sexual minorities turned to the courts in pursuit of the decriminalization of homosexual sex. Empirically, I examine...
Ensuring adequate water quality is essential for human health and for effective allocation of resources in agriculture, energy, and manufacturing. However, the current state-of-the-art for water quality testing requires expensive equipment and technical expertise to analyze samples and takes days to obtain results from off-site labs, making it inaccessible to...
Wearable-based human activity recognition is well-studied in the machine learning and pervasive computing community. A large corpus of studies focused on using wearable sensors to recognize health-related behaviors that involve high periodicity in the sensed signal, such as sitting, walking, and running. Other activities that occur less frequently throughout the...
SAMDI-MS, which stands for self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS), is a powerful tool that has enabled the development of novel high-throughput screening and experimentation methods for decades. SAMDI-MS works by immobilizing analytes to functionalized SAMs prior to MS analysis and is capable of...
Reproduction requires a complex orchestration of processes from the formation of the reproductive system through the successful development of the fetus, and nutrients are necessary to fuel these processes during many aspects of reproduction. Zinc is an essential metal that is fundamental in gamete maturation, gonadogenesis, and fertilization. Disruption in...
No two cells in a population are identical to each other. Cell populations are almost universally heterogeneous, with their heterogeneity or variability often underlying complex emergent behavior and phenotypes. Heterogeneity presents a challenge to the discovery, characterization, and control of multicellular systems. Heterogeneity exists across multiple scales, ranging from the...
The first chapter of the dissertation analyzes a moral hazard problem where a firm incentivizes a team of complementary workers in the presence of trust concerns. As we show, when concerned about team members not trusting each other, the firm typically sacrifices statistically-relevant information, compensating some workers based solely on...
In most markets, consumers of goods and services have vastly more options available to them than they will consider closely. At the point of making a decision, consumers are choosing between only a small subset (i.e., a consideration set) of all possible alternatives. The preceding process that forms these consideration...
Over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced for the construction industry every year, making concrete the second most used substance on Earth, only surpassed by water. With such high importance as a building material, there is significant need for the ability to accurately model concrete behavior. As a quasi-brittle...
Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent, recurrent, and major public health problems. Decades of research has uncovered associations between symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression and abnormal neural activation across executive control-, threat-, and reward-related networks. Recent studies have developed a hierarchical symptom structure of anxiety and depression termed the...
The development of functional materials with rationally designed hierarchical structure is an interdisciplinary challenge. Looking to nature for inspiration, we use small molecules that
engage in directed self-assembly through carefully tuned intermolecular interactions to construct
materials that have structure at multiple length scales. In this work, supramolecular structures
formed using...
From energy to materials, hydrocarbon chemistry drives our world. Stemming from the petrochemical industry, our understanding of CxHy combinations has allowed society to flourish, and hydrocarbons will likely remain valuable species in our future even as we transition to greener carbon and hydrogen sources. Currently, one of the most efficient...
Engineering responses of soft materials at hierarchical time and length scales is of great interest to both fundamental science and technological applications. In recent years, the hybridization between emerging soft condense matters and conventional hard condense matters keeps enriching the materials library of humankind and opens another largely-uncharted venue for...
Bioelectronic devices at the biotic/abiotic interface face a number of key challenges that include device degradation when exposed to biological fluid, their elicited immune response due to mechanical mismatch, and poor signal transduction. Organic electronic materials and their devices, such as organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) address these shortcomings. They can...
Predicting pediatric spinal deformity (PSD) from X-ray images collected on the patient's initial visit is a challenging task. This research provides a bio-informed framework based on a mechanistic machine learning technique with dynamic patient-specific (PS) parameters to predict PSD. We provide a geometry-based bone growth model that can be utilized...