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- Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects over 422 million people worldwide. Within their multi-payer healthcare system, Germany has used standardized, evidence-based interventions called Disease Management Programs (“DMP”s) to manage T2D since 2002. Studies have shown markedly improved health care delivery and health outcomes, including reduced incidence of diabetic secondary complications, decreasing...
- Keyword:
- type 2 diabetes, Chronic disease management, Germany, healthcare reform, and value-based care
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences and German
- Creator:
- Sarah Dinegar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
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- The study of local adaptation in plants is critical for understanding the evolution of traits that contribute to survival in a dynamic environment, the genes underlying them, and the general process of adaptation. However, in the study of natural, non-model plant species, population-level whole-genome sampling is not always feasible and...
- Keyword:
- selection, plant population genomics, genomics, bioinformatics, and conservation
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Christina Shehata
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- The decision to breastfeed or formula feed is a largely contested one by mothers, healthcare administrators, and politicians. Yet, research suggests that both breastfeeding and formula feeding are healthy ways to provide nourishment to newborn babies. Considering this, I sought to analyze why this decision is such a site of...
- Keyword:
- gender, breastfeeding, and discourse
- Subject:
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Creator:
- Maya Glenn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Situated in the heart of urban Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (1976) stands as a monument to the eponymous first president of the Republic of China (ROC). Consisting of a main memorial hall, opera theater, Western concert hall, and surrounding gardens, the memorial complex was constructed...
- Keyword:
- Taiwan, colonialism, architecture, and Chiang Kai-shek
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Nicholas Liou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
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- This study reports on the results of a psychosocial questionnaire survey of professional symphonic musicians in the United States. The response rate was 12.36% (n= 395) and the sample was members of the International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) which is a conglomerate of the top 50 orchestras...
- Keyword:
- perfectionism, depression, musicians, music performance anxiety, anxiety, and psychosocial risk
- Subject:
- Flute Performance
- Creator:
- Rachel Johnstone
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- The theorists who developed Social Justice Education (SJE) claim that its goals are: to critically analyze how oppression operates on an individual, cultural, and institutional level, to harness empathy and respect for others, and, ultimately, to commit to working for lasting change. However, the literature lacks research on how to...
- Keyword:
- Social Justice Education, Social Empathy, and Storytelling
- Creator:
- Samantha Oberman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/22/2019
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- On college campuses, one in five women will experience sexual assault in some capacity over the course of their undergraduate experience. College men in fraternities are three times more likely to commit sexually assaultive acts than non-Greek students. Despite pervasive knowledge that fraternity members are often involved in rape on...
- Keyword:
- Rape Culture
- Subject:
- Human Development and Psychological Services
- Creator:
- Alana Farkas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/22/2019
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- Distance learning has increased its presence in academia, and there is a growing trend among higher education music schools to utilize distance learning in tandem with a traditional curriculum. Many instrumental pedagogues do not understand the benefits even though distance learning has been used for close to twenty years in...
- Keyword:
- massive open online courses, distance learning, and higher education
- Subject:
- Viola Performance
- Creator:
- Alisa A. Seavey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2019
- Date Created:
- 2015-08-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In addition to citing the work, the authors request that permission is sought before editing or using the content of the video.
- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, PrEP, Consent, and Adolescent
- Creator:
- Leah Ibrahim Puri, Brian Mustanski, Celia B. Fisher, and Kathryn Macapagal
- Contributor:
- Maggie Matson and Kai Korpak
- Owner:
- Emily Bettin
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/06/2019
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Keyword:
- RNA folding, Riboswitch, ZTP Riboswitch, Cotranscriptional SHAPE-Seq, and Transcription
- Creator:
- Eric J. Strobel
- Owner:
- Eric Strobel
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2020
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- Description:
- Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels are expressed in the heart and central nervous system where they regulate membrane excitability. Recently, inhibiting HCN channels in the hippocampus has been identified as a possible therapeutic intervention for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). However, based on the high expression level of...
- Keyword:
- HCN, OPC, Oligodendrocyte, TRIP8b, and Depression
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Biochemistry, and Developmental Biology
- Creator:
- Kyle Andrew Lyman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/17/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/17/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N2W781
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- Description:
- Advances in biosensor engineering have enabled the design of programmable molecular systems to detect a range of pathogens, nucleic acids, and chemicals. Here, we engineer and field-test a biosensor for fluoride, a major groundwater contaminant of global concern. The sensor consists of a cell-free system containing a DNA template that...
- Keyword:
- Diagnostic, Fluoride, Riboswitch, Cell-Free, and Synthetic Biology
- Subject:
- Synthetic Biology and Diagnostics
- Creator:
- Nancy Kelley-Loughnane, Matthew S. Verosloff, Michael C. Jewett, Walter Thavarajah, Julius B. Lucks, and Adam D. Silverman
- Contributor:
- This work was supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory Center of Excellence for Advanced Bioprogrammable Nanomaterials (C-ABN) Grant FA8650-15-2-5518 (to M.C.J. and J.B.L), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (to M.C.J.), an NSF CAREER Award (1452441 to J.B.L.), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Program (to M.C.J. and J.B.L.). A.D.S. was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32GM008449) through Northwestern University’s Biotechnology Training Program.
- Owner:
- Julius Beau Lucks
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/08/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-06-04
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Alternate Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N2RJ64
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- Keyword:
- Choices, Gait, and Energy
- Creator:
- Stephen Antos
- Owner:
- Stephen Antos
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/20/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/20/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Alternate Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N29B7D
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores topics in information economics. A particular focus in this dissertation is how competition affects incentives for information acquisition and information sharing between competitors. The first chapter studies a principal-agent setting where two principals compete for the services of one agent. The second chapter studies how competition in...
- Keyword:
- Economic theory
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Rafayal Ahmed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Drawing on over 400 legal decisions and other documentary materials, 40 semi-structured interviews with legal and scientific actors, and hundreds of hours of multi-sited ethnographic observation, I offer a fine-grained analysis of how expert evaluative practices become institutionalized in legal settings and result in divergent understandings of sexuality within the...
- Keyword:
- science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Stefan Vogler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Using transcripts from Kansas State University Libraries’ (KSUL) virtual reference services (VRS), an experimental design was created to investigate the value and impact of different natural language processing techniques in the context of creating predictive models. Models were created to use only the first few word tokens supplied by VRS...
- Keyword:
- academic libraries, virtual reference, predictive modelling, and natural language processing
- Subject:
- Data Science
- Creator:
- Jeremy Walker
- Owner:
- Jeremy Walker
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- In the past few years, educators have been pushing for an integration of the arts into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning in order to promote innovation and creativity in these fields. The present study explores the relation between creativity and STEM learning among young children in digital and...
- Keyword:
- STEM, preschool, and creativity
- Creator:
- Allyson Snyder
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-01
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The basal layer of human epidermis is composed of progenitor cells that both self-renew and differentiate to form stratified epidermal tissue; this process requires strict, dynamic regulation of gene expression. The Super Elongation Complex (SEC) regulates gene expression at the level of transcription elongation by releasing RNA Polymerase II from...
- Keyword:
- Transcription Elongation
- Creator:
- Mari Brady, Xiaomin Bao , and Sarah Lloyd
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are proteinaceous organelles contained within prokaryotes used to facilitate reactions with increased efficiency, or to carry out reactions with intermediates that are harmful to the cell if released into the cytoplasm. Oftentimes, compartments are used to metabolize unique carbon sources, such as 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PD), whose metabolic pathway...
- Keyword:
- Microcompartment
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Henry Raeder
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
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- Description:
- Free space optical communication (FSO) offers a promising solution to the “last mile” bottleneck of high-speed telecommunications. Data is encoded using a modulated laser and optically sent through the air to a receiving photodetector. Although this requires FSO systems to have direct line-of-sight between the emitter and receiver, this is...
- Keyword:
- Communication and FSO
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert Gray and Jacob Baran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 07/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Keyword:
- project management and research support
- Creator:
- Christina Maimone
- Owner:
- Christina Maimone
- Publisher:
- ACM
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/26/2019
- Date Modified:
- 07/26/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-07-28
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- Description:
- Importance: Despite its efficacy, low tidal volume ventilation (LTVV) remains severely underutilized for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Physician under-recognition of ARDS is a significant barrier to LTVV use. We propose a computational method that addresses some of the limitations of the current approaches to automated measurement of...
- Keyword:
- data science, low tidal volume ventilation, complex systems, critical care, lung protective ventilation, implementation science, acute lung injury, and acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Creator:
- Richard G. Wunderink, Sanjay Mehrotra, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Adam R. Pah, Curtis H. Weiss, Shayna Weiner, Hanyu Shi, Stephen D. Persell, and Meagan A. Bechel
- Owner:
- Meagan Bechel
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 08/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- HIV, sexual and gender minorities, and adolescent health
- Creator:
- Maggie Matson, Chris Garcia, Mara Bianca Nery-Hurwit, Kyle Jozsa, Luis Morales, and Kathryn Macapagal
- Owner:
- Shariell Crosby
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/26/2019
- Date Modified:
- 08/26/2019
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Harbor seal whiskers exhibit a tapering elliptical geometry uniquely suited to detect wakes (trails of water produced by upstream bodies) in ways a regular, tapering, or elliptical cylinder cannot. Previous studies into the matter have relied on idealized representations of the geometry the whiskers seem to take on and have...
- Keyword:
- Modeling, Biomimicry, Harbor Seal, Imaging, Seal Whiskers, Fluid Dynamics, and Biomimetics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Sophia Wong and Madeline Corrigan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/05/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-29
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Neural networks have revolutionized the field of computer vision since they provide solutions to a number of previously unsolved problems and achieve promising performance both in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. It has increasingly become recognized as providing high performance for applications as diverse as image classification, object detection,...
- Keyword:
- video segmentation, neural network, medical image analysis, and chronic stroke lesion segmentation
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Creator:
- Yan-Ran Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Keyword:
- implementation, scale, and household water insecurity
- Creator:
- HWISE Research Coordination Network
- Owner:
- Joshua Miller
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2019
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- Keyword:
- household water insecurity
- Creator:
- HWISE Research Coordination Network
- Owner:
- Joshua Miller
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2019
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- Description:
- Recent advances in cell-free synthetic biology have spurred the development of in vitro molecular diagnostics that serve as effective alternatives to whole-cell biosensors. However, cell-free sensors for detecting manmade organic water contaminants such as pesticides are sparse, partially because few characterized natural biological sensors can directly detect such pollutants. Here,...
- Keyword:
- biosensor, TX-TL, atrazine, cell-free, cyanuric acid, metabolism, synthetic biology, and transcription factor
- Creator:
- Umut Akova, Khalid K. Alam, Michael C. Jewett, Julius B. Lucks, and Adam D. Silverman
- Owner:
- Adam Silverman
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2020
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- Keyword:
- data, slides, data sharing, data best practices, and data management
- Creator:
- Cunera Buys
- Owner:
- Cunera M Buys
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/24/2019
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- Description:
- This file contains the supplementary online material that should accompany the paper "Defining and Measuring the Influences of GIS-Based Instruction on Students’ STEM-Relevant Reasoning", published in Journal of Geography.
- Keyword:
- maps, gis, STEM, spatial, and high school
- Subject:
- Reasoning, Spatial, Learning, and GIS
- Creator:
- David H. Uttal, Robert A. Kolvoord, and Erin W. Jant
- Owner:
- David Uttal
- Publisher:
- Journal of Geography
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/31/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-09-29
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- œRuling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge, brings together approaches from the sociologies of science, law, and sexualities to examine how the institutions of law and science jointly render sexual subjects legible to state institutions by measuring and categorizing sexualities. Through the comparative study of asylum claims...
- Keyword:
- science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Stefan Vogler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Research on rat whiskers offers knowledge in neuroscience analogous to humans\' sense of touch and inspiration for efficient sensing robotics. The present work investigates the rat whisker system from a mechanical engineering perspective. First, key quasi-static and dynamic properties were quantified in Chapter 2 for individual whiskers in an array,...
- Keyword:
- Mechanics, Wearable sensor, Neuroscience, Rat Whisker, and Bio-inspired robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- En-Tzu Yang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Self-assembled monolayers as tunable chemical platforms broadly enable the study of the interaction between biological species and synthetic surfaces. Unlike small molecule chemistry where the freely diffusible product can interact with biological targets as an inhibitor or probe, interfacial chemistry allows for the controlled and multi-valent presentation of ligands to...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Pradeep Bugga
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) are a class of structures composed of spherical nanoparticle cores that are densely functionalized with radially oriented, linear DNA. SNAs exhibit properties that are distinct from those of their linear counterparts. These constructs can readily enter cells, evade nuclease degradation, and bind complementary DNA targets with...
- Keyword:
- Nanoparticles, DNA, Hybridization, Thermodynamics, and Synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Lam-Kiu Fong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chapter 1: Product Market Strategy and Capital Structure: Evidence from Resale Price Maintenance', "This paper studies how a firm's pricing strategy affects its financial leverage. Retailers vary in pricing strategy, ranging from low markup (i.e., ``discount''), no frills retailers to high markup retailers that offer extensive service. The choice of...
- Keyword:
- Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Grant Thomas Clayton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The mammalian retina harbors more than 30 output channels, each playing a distinct role in processing visual images. A comprehensive understanding of the retinal code primarily relies on the functional knowledge of individual output neurons or retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Despite recent technical advances in imaging and genetics, the function...
- Keyword:
- Electrophysiology, Retinal Ganglion Cells, and Retina
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Amurta Nath
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The objective of this work has been the design of new lubricant additives to target friction in the boundary lubrication regime and the hydrodynamic lubrication regime. Modern automotive engines operate at higher temperatures and speeds than ever before, and therefore require new and more effective lubricant additives to meet higher...
- Keyword:
- Viscosity Index Improver, Lubricant Additivex, Tribology, Friction Modifier, Antiwear Additive, and Fuel Efficiency
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael Desanker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ability to efficiently sense and respond to molecular signals is crucial for any organism's survival. Sensitive, specific and timely, microbial sensing systems provide an excellent starting point for the engineering of single-celled organisms to detect new molecules of human interest. Towards this goal, our lab pursues the engineering of...
- Keyword:
- Bioengineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Adebola Adeniran
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation consists of two chapters that empirically study policy-related questions in applied microeconomics by using structural econometric modeling developed in industrial organization. In the first chapter, I study the welfare effects of a cap-and-trade program. I develop an equilibrium framework that incorporates forward-looking behavior and transaction costs. In the...
- Keyword:
- electricity, investment, election, voter turnout, cap-and-trade, and preference aggregation
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yuta Toyama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Patterning hierarchical structures in three-dimension (3D) has created nature-inspired functional surfaces. Gecko feet structures have been mimicked for reversible adhesive properties, shark skin for reduced drag, and lotus leaves for self-cleaning surfaces. Rational design of out-of-plane patterns across multiple length scales is crucial because each micro- and nano-feature has different...
- Keyword:
- Nanostructure, Surface Engineering, Nanophotonics, and Nanofabrication
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Won-Kyu Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- One of the main drivers of complexity in a service system is the dependence between different random variables describing the system. For example, the queue lengths at different time points and the waiting times of different items (jobs, customers) in queue are strongly dependent. To reduce dependence-related complexities, it is...
- Keyword:
- Pricing, Fluid Approximation, Queing Model, Service Systems, and Dependencies
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Chenguang Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ultrafast, multi-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (MD-CS) has enabled scientists to probe fundamental aspects of chemical and photo-physical reactions on the nanosecond to femtosecond timescales. Using MD-CS, scientific contributions ranging from increased understanding of energy transfer in photosynthetic biological proteins to correlating the motion of electrons in semiconductors have been achieved. Concurrent...
- Keyword:
- Six-Wave Mixing, Nonlinear Optics, Photon-Echo Spectroscopy, Electronic-Vibrational Coupling, Chemical Physics, and Raman Spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- William Orin Hutson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Self-assembly is an important process in biological system to build various bioactive structures from small amphiphilic molecules. The structural versatility of amphiphile self- assembly also provides a unique platform for the design of functional soft materials with controllable structural features. However, little is known about the correlation between external stimuli,...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Changrui Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents research on solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes. It specifically covers two main topics: the electrochemical performance of porous two-phase composite cathodes, and the degradation mechanisms of porous single-phase mixed conducting cathodes. Current-voltage measurement and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were used extensively to evaluate the cell performance. The...
- Keyword:
- Degradation Mechanism, Solid Oxide Fue Cell, 3D Reconstruction, and Sr Surface Segregation
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Hongqian Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) is a powerful high-throughput tool to profile transcriptional activities in cells. The observed read counts can be biased by various factors such that they do not accurately represent the true relative abundance of mRNA transcript abundance. Normalization is a critical step to ensure unbiased comparison of gene expression...
- Keyword:
- Normalization, Matrix factorization, RNA-Seq, and Degradation
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Bin Xiong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Biopolymers are polymers synthesized by living organisms. Depending on the monomeric units, biopolymers can be classified as polynucleotides (e.g., DNA and RNA), polypeptides (e.g., protein), polysaccharides (e.g., cellulose) and so on. Biopolymers not only play an essential role in nature, but also have wide applications in various fields of industry...
- Keyword:
- gene delivery, cellulose nanocrystals, coarse-graining, and computer simulations
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Zonghui Wei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mounting evidence indicates that known schizophrenia susceptibility genes regulate dendritic spines supports the model that perturbations in the molecular network underlying spine plasticity are crucially involved in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The Rac1- and RhoA-guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) kalirin is critical for spine morphogenesis on cortical pyramidal neurons, and...
- Keyword:
- Neurosciences
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- THERON ANDREW RUSSELL
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The thermodynamics and kinetics of electron transfer reactions in catalysis, energy conversion and storage, and plasmon-driven chemistry depend strongly on nanoscale electrode surface structure. To elucidate the structure-function relationships that determine nanoscale electrochemical reactivity, it is necessary to observe electron transfer reactions one molecule at a time. Over the past...
- Keyword:
- Nanoscale Electrochemistry and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael Mattei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Raising California Together, an ethnography of licensed family childcare homes, contributes significant theoretical and empirical knowledge to our understanding of workfare, immigration and education institutions that shape the lives of the youngest subject-citizens and of those who care for them. I draw from more than three years of participant observation...
- Keyword:
- Labor, Childhood, Immigration, Race & Gender, North America, and Feminism
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Dario Valles
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Of the half million new cases of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) reported globally each year, over 80% occur in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)1. Nigeria is one of these countries with a huge burden of ICC incidence and mortality.2 As reported in the Global Burden of Cancer 2013, cervical cancer is...
- Keyword:
- Abnormal cervical cytology outcome, Cervical Cancer Screening, HIV status, Nigeria, Provider recommendation, and Opportunistic screening
- Subject:
- Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
- Creator:
- Jonah Musa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation