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- Type IIb supernovae (SNe) are important candidates to understand mechanisms that drive the stripping of stripped-envelope (SE) supernova (SN) progenitors. ', 'While binary interactions and their high incidence are generally cited to favor them as Type IIb SN progenitors, this idea has not been tested using models covering a broad...
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- Astrophysics
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- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Niharika Sravan
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- 10/28/2019
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- 11/20/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation focuses on Chinese contemporary artists conceptualization of spectatorship in the 2000s, the decade when the state started to regulate art production within the parameters of cultural industry. I argue that these artistsCai Guoqiang (b. 1957), Xu Bing (b. 1955), and Yang Shaobin (b. 1962)adopted the visual language and...
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- Art history
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- Art History
- Creator:
- Xinran Guo
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- 10/28/2019
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- 11/20/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Land and Water: Performing Ecologies of Statelessness in the Aftermath of the Vietnam/American War focuses on land and water as epistemological and ontological grammars to examine cultural productions of Vietnamese refugee narratives. Specifically, I analyze how Vietnamese/American oral history narrators, filmmakers, visual artists, and performance artists narrate refugee subjectivity in...
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- performance studies, oral history, political ecology, performance art, transnational feminist studies, and critical refugee studies
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- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Patricia T Nguyen
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- 10/28/2019
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- 11/20/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Precise assessment of long-term aging and deterioration play a major role in life-time predictions of concrete structures. One of the primary challenges in studies of cementitious materials such as concrete comes from the fact that multiple chemical reactions are happening in parallel. Environmental conditions present another challenge as they can...
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- CONCRETE, MULTI-PHYSICS, EXPERIMENTAL, and MODELING
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Faysal Bousikhane
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
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- 10/28/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The phase-field crystal (PFC) model is an exciting new method for simulating crystalline materials with atomic resolution over diffusional time scales. Unfortunately, applications of the model have been severely limited by the requirement that novel free energies must be constructed for each new material of interest. This thesis describes three...
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- Phase-field crystal
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- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Eli Alster
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- Scholarly Digital Publishing
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- 10/28/2019
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- 10/28/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Meiosis is a specialized form of cell division where chromosomes are duplicated once and segregated twice, in order to reduce the chromosome number by half to generate haploid gametes. In contrast to mitosis, oocyte meiosis in many species occurs in the absence of centrosomes, the microtubule organizing centers that nucleate...
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- Biology
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- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Amanda Cara Roca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
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- 10/28/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation studies three topics in labor and public economics. The first chapter examines the local economic consequences of prisons using two complementary approaches. The first uses the openings of 230 prisons during the 1990s across the entire United States, and the second uses a quasi-experimental strategy that compares winning...
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- Local labor market, Prison, Mortality, House price, Volatility, and Heating price
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- Economics
- Creator:
- Janjala Chirakijja
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
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- 10/28/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Electrochemical energy storage devices have become increasingly relevant to the operation and sustainability of the modern world, as proliferation of mobile electronics, renewable electrical energy generators, electrical vehicles, and various high-tech bio-medical sensing device continues. The widespread need of easier to produce, better performing, and multifunctional energy storage materials in...
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- battery, graphene, carbon, supercapacitor, and energy storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Yue Yang Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation approaches J. M. Coetzees work through the lens of critical animal studies. Puzzling out the frequent appearances of animals in his work, numerous scholars have attempted to answer the following question: What is Coetzee writing about when he writes about animals? But while many have engaged with the...
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- Allegory, Coetzee, Kafka, and Animal studies
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Sonia H. Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This study is an examination of conservative Christian pronatalist discourse in the contemporary United States and the myriad ways it endangers American women and children. Insofar as conservative Christian pronatalism is part of broader religious and pollical movement, this study also examines related conservative Christian discourses asserting anti-intellectualism, libertarian economics,...
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- Conservative Christian, Motherhood, Pronatalism, Women, and Evangelical
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Myev Alexandra Rees
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation provides a study of local Black media development in Detroit in the decade following the 1967 Rebellion, as Detroit became a majority Black city. I argue that Black Detroiters not only produced documentaries that challenged local white discourse within what George Lipsitz terms “a Black spatial imaginary,†but...
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- film, Detroit, history, television, urbanism, and race
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Annie Laurie Sullivan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation and Dataset
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- Reactive Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) pollution is responsible for a vast array of environmental problems, including eutrophication of nutrient limited water bodies, vast dead zones in the ocean margins, and ammonia toxicity to aquatic life. N pollution is also linked to the emission of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous...
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- Environmental engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Han Gao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation and Dataset
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- Systems of colloids coated with high-information polymers are powerful tools for designing crystal lattice with tailorable properties or studying the fundamentals of crystallization. By changing the colloid-colloid interaction strength or colloid shape, different types of lattices can be assembled. In this thesis, I present novel coarse-grained models to describe high-information...
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- DNA, molecular dynamics, nanomaterials, and Colloidal crystallization
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Martin Girard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder that arises following the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Patients experience a host of limiting motor symptoms such as rigidity, tremor, and a paucity of controlled movement generation. These symptoms often correspond with a predominance of abnormally...
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- KATP channel, chemogenetics, basal ganglia, subthalamic nucleus, Parkinson's disease, and autonomous activity
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Eileen McIver
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation analyzes the early excavation, classification, and publication of Cypriot sculpture and its collection and display in European universal museums. The author argues that the events and intellectual climate of the nineteenth century profoundly and lastingly shaped the perception of the ancient Cypriot tradition, determining the island conventional place...
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- Cyprus, Museum, Ancient, Sculpture, Cypriot, and Nineteenth Century
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Catherine Victoria Olien
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation interrogates the relationship between affect and blackness, as it is intimated in the materiality of water and its attendant sensations. My methodology draws from black feminist theory and metaphors extracted from the natural and neurosciences. In so doing, I grapple with the following questions, as they relate to...
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- affect, black studies, visual studies, geophilosophy, black popular culture, and visuality
- Subject:
- African-American Studies
- Creator:
- Jared Christopher Brian Richardson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by the abnormal high blood glucose of patients. The defects in the hormonal regulation, including impaired insulin secretion, insulin action, or the combination of the two are usually the causes of such a disease. The elevated blood glucose also leads to a wide...
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- Diabetes, Antioxidant, Citric acid, Wound healing, Islet transplantation, and Biomaterial
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yunxiao Zhu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- ABSTRACT', 'Reinventing Television and Family Life, 1960-1990', 'Hannah Spaulding', 'In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the field of television changed. A series of new electronic devices that interfaced directly with TV technology video cameras, home recorders, cable boxes, video calling systemswere introduced to the American public. These devices promised to...
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- Domesticity, History, Video, Television, Technology, and Gender
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Hannah Alice Spaulding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
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- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- 2018-1The human visual system has a remarkable ability for understanding material properties on the basis of texture appearance, such as', 'telling whether the food is fresh, the fabric is soft, the soil is wet, or the skin is dry. Such visual judgments of material properties mostly rely on the perception...
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- gloss perception, bandlimited statistics, selective comparison, color composition perception, and photometric transformation
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jing Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Ultrathin optical platform including two-dimensional materials and metasurfaces have emerged as potential candidates for novel nanophotonic applications. In this dissertation, I will present the possibility to achieve full active control of the electromagnetic waves with the platform in the flatland. We could achieve the amplitude control, which will be useful...
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- 2D Materials, Flatland Optics, Plasmonics, Metasurfaces, and Nanophotonics
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zizhuo Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- The use of polymeric membranes have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. From simple chip bags to million-dollar cockpits, these membranes find diverse applications in packaging, protective coating, electronic device, gas and liquid separation, and medicine. The 2-dimentional geometry of the membranes offered unique mechanical and interfacial properties that often...
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- water treatment, polyelectrolyte, fracture mechanics, large-strain deformation, block ionomer, and structure-property relationship
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Shawn H Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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Communicating Contraception: Social Science and the Politics of Population Control in Cold War India
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- This dissertation analyzes archival materials to examine the relationship between reproductive governance in India and the political and scientific dynamics of the Cold War. In 1952, India became the first country to institute anti-natalist population control as a national policy goal, concentrating its efforts on female sterilization and the building...
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- Science and technology, Reproductive governance, Gender, Family planning, Population control, and India
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Savina Balasubramanian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Gene regulatory networks contain multiple components including microRNAs (miRNAs) that coordinate regulation of genes to produce higher level cell functions. miRNAs are small non-coding RNA molecules that modulate gene expression post-transcriptionally by binding to short target motifs on mRNA transcripts to down-regulate target genes. Because miRNA regulation of genes is...
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- Gene Regulation, Systems Biology, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Pathways, Cancer, and microRNAs
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Gary Wilk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- According to contemporary estimates, the 1933 Soviet famine killed six to eight million people, more than two million of them in Ukraine. This dissertation studies causes and consequences of this famine. ', 'Chapter one evaluates the causes of the 1933 famine offered by historians in Ukrainian context. Three main explanations...
- Keyword:
- multiple equilibria, Ukraine, genocide, collectivization, central planning, and famine
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Natalya Naumenko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Parents play a crucial role in shaping the contexts within which young children develop, particularly in the early years of a childs life (Bornstein, 2002; Brooks-Gunn & Markman, 2005; Maccoby & Martin, 1983). Parenting is also one of the key pathways through which socioeconomic factors, such as maternal education, may...
- Keyword:
- poverty and inequality, social policy, maternal education, Head Start preschool, parenting, and child development
- Subject:
- Human Development and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Emily C. Ross
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Raytracing is a long-established means to simulate physically accurate light propagation. Increasing availability and power of highly-parallel computing, such as cloud-based clusters and dedicated graphics hardware, means that rendering algorithms can produce high resolution output very quickly. This means raytracing can now be used as a forward model in optimization...
- Keyword:
- Computer science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Nathan Seigo Matsuda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Maxwell equations are behind an incredible number of physical phenomena, explaining the behavior of light, electricity and magnetism, from Gamma rays to ultra-low frequency radio-waves. Since their inception in 1861, many approximations have been derived, many devices have been modelled and fabricated to manipulate the electromagnetic fields, and more recently...
- Keyword:
- Electromagnetics
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Francois Callewaert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Many democratic theorists suggest that harmonious relationship between groups are critical for democracy; however, far less is known about how everyday experiences promote or impede such intergroup harmony. In this dissertation, I explore a common, but overlooked, form of intergroup contact casual, brief experiences with outgroup strangers. I propose a...
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- political psychology, race and ethnic politics, experiments, and intergroup contact
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Ethan C Busby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Research shows that psychometrically-assessed spatial abilities (e.g., spatial visualization and spatial orientation) can be improved through training, and that some training yields improvements that are transferable to novel contexts and tasks (Uttal et al., 2013). While the training of these spatial abilities may be valuable for some forms of STEM...
- Keyword:
- geospatial technology in classrooms and spatial thinking
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Emily Nicole Hollenbeck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- What does it mean for writing from the former French imperial territories of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) to become Maghrebi literature? How does literature come to count as belonging to or appertaining to a particular place? Today, in the international spheres of the university and the literary market,...
- Keyword:
- Novel, Maghreb, Modernity, Territory, Nation, and Japan
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Matthew Thomas Kerper Brauer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Oxidation processes play an integral role in many industries, but questions still remain regarding the mechanisms of carbon-hydrogen bond activation and oxidation in free-radical and catalyzed processes. Microkinetic modeling is a powerful tool capable of examining oxidation processes at the mechanistic level to gain understanding and guide catalyst applications. This...
- Keyword:
- Microkinetic, Catalysis, Oxidation, and Modeling
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert R.O Brydon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In the past decade, scholars, the news media, and the public have turned increased attention to the activity of atheists in the West. Atheism serves as a source of identity and community in todays society, signaling more than a simple lack of belief in god(s). This dissertation is a cultural...
- Keyword:
- cultural studies, atheism, religion and atheism, theory of religion, media studies, and American atheism
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Hannah Scheidt Tebbetts
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation thesis, I introduce three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction algorithms for multi-focus microscopy (MFM). MFM provides a fast way to obtain 3D information of the sample by simultaneously capturing multiple focal planes on a single camera shot. However, stacking the sub-images from different focal planes does not provide a...
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- Image Restoration, 3D Image Reconstruction, Image Denoising, ADMM, Multi-Focus Microscopy, and Super-Resolution
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Seunghwan Yoo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Small molecules such as indanes, chromanes, tetralins and their derivatives play a significant role in drug discovery due to their potent biological activity. This research herein presents a facile Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylsilane annulation methodology to generate fused ring systems such as indanes. The reaction goes through a homoallylic intermediate which...
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- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Weiwei Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays in Microeconomic Theory that study the interplay between mechanism and information design, provide insights into the design of efficient dispute resolution mechanisms for partnerships, and analyze the stability of fractional matchings in two-sided markets.', "In the first chapter, we study the optimal disclosure policy...
- Keyword:
- fractional matchings, matching, information design, partnership dissolution, mechanism design, and information disclosure
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bela Szabadi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- It is pertinent now more than ever that we find sustainable alternatives to produce chemicals. For decades, scientists and engineers have turned to biological systems to help meet societal needs in energy, medicine, materials, and moreespecially when chemical synthesis is untenable. Often, biologically-produced small molecules are insufficient for production at...
- Keyword:
- metabolic engineering, biotechnology, cell-free systems, biosynthetic pathway, synthetic biology, and enzymatic reactions
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Ashty Karim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Holy Mediocrity: Saintly Matrons and the Dominicans in Late Medieval Italy', 'Julia Lauren Miglets', 'The task of this study is to explain why a cluster of female saints who were noted not for their miracles but for the moderate even boring quality of their sanctity, a paradigm I call holy...
- Keyword:
- marriage, Italy, Villana delle Botti, tertiaries, women, and medieval
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Julia Lauren Miglets
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This thesis studies three approaches for solving linear programs with complementarity constraints (LPCC). The focus of Chapter 2 lies on difference-of-convex (DC) penalty formulations and the associated difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA) for computing stationary solutions of LPCCs. We concentrate on three such formulations and establish connections between their stationary solutions and...
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- Algorithms, Bilevel programming, global optimization, stationary, difference of convex, and Complementarity constraints
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Francisco Ivan Jara Moroni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- In this dissertation, efforts are detailed to utilize semiquinoid bridging ligands to impart strong magnetic coupling between metal centers. Chapter 1 introduces the synthetic challenge of realizing molecule-based magnets with high operating temperatures due to weak magnetic coupling between spin centers through large, diamagnetic ligands. An alternative strategy is described...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jordan DeGayner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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Synaptic and spiking activity of cerebellar neurons during learning and swimming in larval zebrafish
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- The cerebellum contributes to movement initiation, execution, and adaptation. Primary cerebellar neurons receive synaptic inputs related to sensory stimuli and motor commands, leading to modulation of their firing. Furthermore, synaptic input differs substantially between cerebellum-dependent behaviors. I have made voltage- and current-clamp recordings from Purkinje and eurydendroid neurons in the...
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- zebrafish, cerebellum, Purkinje, sensorimotor integration, and learning
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Thomas Harmon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Chromatin organization involves a hierarchy of length scales ranging from a few tens of nanometers in nucleosomes to hundreds of nanometers for chromosomal territories. This physical nanostructure is regulated by the genetic code, differential methylation and histone modifications that comprise the histone code, as well as non-molecular factors, such as...
- Keyword:
- Physicochemical, Nanoscale, Chromatin, and Transcription
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Greta Mary Wodarcyk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
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- 10/14/2019
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- Dissertation
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- Understanding bridge performance and detecting structurally deficient components are of increasing concern to modern infrastructure owners and managers. Concerns over possible effects of increased truck weights led to the opportunity to monitor a highway bridge, regularly subjected to heavy traffic due to logging activities typical of its locale. A weigh-in-motion...
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- Bridge monitoring, structural health monitoring, weigh in motion, and data mining
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Fiorella Mete
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
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- 10/14/2019
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- Dissertation
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- Many key crises of international security are tied to the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, but what makes a state nuclear remains subject to controversy. The possession of nuclear technology does not always grant legal and political nuclear status”a phenomenon evident not only in the recent debate over Irans...
- Keyword:
- Nuclear Weapons and Diplomacy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Sidra Hamidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This mixed-method dissertation explores how companies manage competing tensions in their corporate social responsibility platforms, with an emphasis on the activity of corporate philanthropy. While existing literature has overwhelmingly focused on the post-grant financial effects of corporate philanthropy, I shift our attention to various internal contestations between social impact and...
- Keyword:
- organizational theory, institutional complexity, corporate philanthropy, nonmarket strategy, and impression management
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations and Sociology
- Creator:
- Vontrese Pamphile
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis, I investigate how the disagreements among market participants can affect markets in various settings. In the first chapter, I study how market participants with heterogeneous beliefs and non-commitment can create and manage counterparty risk in a sequentially and bilaterally traded market. I find that the equilibrium price...
- Keyword:
- Counterparty Risk, Bubble, Asynchronized Trading, Central Clearing, Derivatives, and Heterogeneous Beliefs
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Hao Sun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this work, we explore the utility of the three main types of neural networks: feed forward, convolutional, and recurrent. While using these networks, we develop a new way to model multiagent trajectory data, explore the use of multiple activation functions for neurons at each layer of a neural network,...
- Keyword:
- Stock Prediction, Deep Learning, Basketball Trajectory, Activation Functions, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Mark Harmon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Technology mediated experiences are becoming more common and creating new ways for us to work and learn together when separated by distance. However, these remote environments lack many of the rich non-verbal cues that we take for granted in co-located interactions, such as information about where your partner is looking....
- Keyword:
- Eye Tracking, Collaboration, Human Computer Interaction, and Gaze Visualization
- Subject:
- Technology and Social Behavior
- Creator:
- Sarah "D Angelo"
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on the topic of pseudowords and how speakers pseudoword processing relates to that of real words. Three main lines of inquiry are pursued with respect to pseudowords and real words: mechanisms of gradient well-formedness, theories of morphological decomposition, and indexical associations for morphemes in complex words. It...
- Keyword:
- pseudoword, gender, typicality, morphology, and indexicality
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Jeremy Michael Needle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Platyrrhines are an enigmatic and intriguing radiation of New World monkeys that currently inhabit the western hemisphere from Argentina to Mexico. Platyrrhini, a taxonomic parvorder within Primates, is their formal taxonomic designation, as they represent the sister group of the Catarrhini or all of the Old World monkeys and apes....
- Keyword:
- Primates, Platyrrhines, Hindlimb Suspension, Leaping, Hindlimb, and Primate Locomotion
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael S Mutehart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a promising technology for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). However, while there has been much interest in PSA process development, the choice of adsorbent for the separation is just as important as the process configuration. Therefore, it is important to develop PSA processes in conjunction...
- Keyword:
- Chemical engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Karson Troy Leperi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation