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- This dissertation analyzes figurations of gender and sexuality in Mexican modernista narratives that construct the modern subject. It discusses how these texts examine, interpret, and constitute subjects that were labeled as “degenerate” by medical, juridical, and criminological discourses in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Those ostensibly “scientific” and “objective” discourses reproduced and...
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- Spanish and Portuguese
- Subject:
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Creator:
- Minwook Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- I study how electricity generation firms exert market power, raising price above marginal cost. Typical studies of market power in electricity markets focus on how firms sustain markups in the short-run energy market. I explore other channels electricity generation firms use to strategically maximize profits. First, I analyze strategic investments...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Market Power
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- James Myatt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores the relationship between how teams form and what they need to perform. It adopts the perspective that technology is fundamental to organizing in modern workplaces and examines how technology may both enhance and constrain teamwork. By adopting this perspective, two questions naturally follow. First, how do teams...
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- Organizational Teams, Affordances, Social Media, Technology Adoption, Communication, and Social Networks
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Jacqueline Ng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) and, more specifically, RNA interference (RNAi) include the processes by which a small double-stranded RNA, 19 to 22 nucleotides (nts) long, negatively regulates the expression and/or translatability of a target RNA, which harbors reverse complementarity to that small RNA, by recruiting the so-called RNA-Induced Silencing Complex...
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- siRNA, RNA Interference, Cell Death, Cancer, shRNA, and DISE
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- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- William Edward Putzbach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation studies the forces that drive the allocation of patients to hospitals in the United States. Even though it seems there is some market discipline in the hospital industry, we observe that many patients go to hospitals far from the quality frontier and we still do not have a...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Mariano Irace
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Hybrid polymer-peptide conjugates are receiving increasing attention as a promising class of biomaterials. Polymer conjugated coiled-coil peptides are a new addition to these designer macromolecules. Even though a variety of experiments and computational simulations have shown stabilization of helices upon polymer conjugation, there are still many questions regarding the conformations...
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- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Dan Ma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The ability of a machine to synthesize textual output in a form of human language is a long-standing goal in a field of artificial intelligence and has wide-range of applications such as spell correction, speech recognition, machine translation, abstractive summarization, etc. The statistical approach to enable such ability mainly involves...
- Keyword:
- language generation, machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, dictionary definitions, and language modeling
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Thanapon Noraset
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The holomorphic sigma-model is a field theory that exists in any complex dimension that describes the moduli space of holomorphic maps from one complex manifold to another. We introduce the general notion of a holomorphic field theory, which is one that is sensitive to the underlying complex structure of the...
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- Factorization algebras, Renormalization, Batalin-Vilkovisky, and Quantum field theory
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Brian R Williams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The most promising probe into compact binary formation and evolution will be the populations resolved by both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observatories. As with any observation, theoretical models must be characterized to gain a fuller understanding of the underlying physics governing the observed population. Investigation of these models...
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- Milky Way, compact binary, population synthesis, gravitational waves, and binary star
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Katelyn Breivik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- homotopy theory studies a parametrization of stable homotopy theory in terms of algebraic objects called formal groups. Transchromatic homotopy theory is specifically concerned with the behavior of spaces and cohomology theories as these formal groups change in height. We pursue a central transchromatic object, the K(n − 1)- localization of...
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- chromatic homotopy theory, formal groups, Morava E-theory, Bousfield localization, algebraic topology, and structured ring spectra
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Paul Behrents VanKoughnett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Chinatown and Chicago
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Owner:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/11/2019
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- Keyword:
- Percent Poor, US Census, and Chicago
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Owner:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/11/2019
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- Keyword:
- Parkinson's Disease, accelerometer, human activity recognition, smartphones, and wearables
- Creator:
- Stephen Antos
- Owner:
- Stephen Antos
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/08/2019
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- This dissertation examines the political thought of Sheldon Wolin. Perceiving a crisis of technocratic liberalism in the postwar period, Wolin develops a critique of modernity that emphasizes the loss both of political vision and of local cultures and traditions. His subsequent radical democratic theory identifies a contrapuntal American tradition of...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Totalitarianism, Liberalism, Loss, Radical, and Wolin
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Lucy Cane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- As many retailers are extending their channels to both online and offline, consumers nowadays are increasingly buying products across different shopping platforms, ranging from traditional catalog and retail channels to Internet stores. Thus, it is important to understand how the purchasing experiences and the factors surrounding the multichannel shopping environment...
- Keyword:
- quasi-experiment, multichannel, Instrumental variable, product unavailability, Intrahousehold, and social interaction
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Hyung Sup Bhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Firms are facing reputational crises with increasing regularity. Despite this, relatively little is known about what types of firm actions consumers will judge to be reprehensible, and how firms should respond once a reputational crisis has occurred. In this dissertation I focus on two specific topics related to firm reputational...
- Keyword:
- Trust, Pricing, Fairness, Reputation, Price Increases, and Autonomy
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Benjamin Jerome Neuwirth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We prove a uniform scalar curvature bound for solutions of the conical Kahler-Ricci flow when the twisted canonical bundle is semiample and the cone divisor is obtained from the associated Iitaka-Kodaira fibration. In the course of the proof we establish uniform bounds for the potential of the metric and its...
- Keyword:
- Geometric Flows, Kahler-Ricci Flow, and Conical Kahler Metrics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gregory Edwards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The first two chapters of my thesis are related to health economics, and explore how individual decisions affecting health can be impacted by different factors, including by government policy. The third chapter of my thesis (coauthored with Heyu Xiong) focuses on public economics in the Chinese context. >In the first...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Susan Ou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative pathogen that frequently causes severe nosocomial infections through expression of virulence factors, evasion of immune clearance and resistance to therapeutic antimicrobial agents. These factors have led the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) to identify P....
- Keyword:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, antibiotic resistance, T3SS, and inflammasome
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Ami Joy Hughes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examined gender differences in youth externalizing comorbidity via three studies. Study 1 was a meta-analytic review that provided the first robust estimate of gender differences in youth externalizing comorbidity. Studies 2 and 3 unpacked these gender differences at two levels of analysis: personality (Study 2 and 3) and...
- Keyword:
- Clinical psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Kathrin Herzhoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- outh in detention are at an increased risk for psychiatric disorders compared with youth in the general population. Hispanic youth have particularly pressing mental health needs in detention and as they age. Studies examining psychiatric disorders among Hispanic youth in detention do not differentiate by ethnicity; rather they consider Hispanics...
- Keyword:
- Juvenile Detention, Hispanic, Psychiatric Disorders, and Ethnic Differences
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Lauren Potthoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation proposes a new hyperpath-based truck equilibrium assignment model with bidding. Unique from other trucking assignment models that examine assigning trucks for a large fleet of vehicles under a company's control, this model considers the case of many independent but homogeneous carriers that are competing for loads by bidding...
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- online freight exchange, space-time expanded network, ombined pricing and bidding, variational inequality, dynamic trucking equilibrium, and hyperpath
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- John V Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- etal particles at the nanoscale display unique physical, chemical, and optical properties corresponding to their size, shape, and ligands. These factors can be manipulated to target specific biomedical applications, such as drug delivery and sensing, through functionalized surfaces. The development of specialized synthetic methods for the precise control of nanoparticle...
- Keyword:
- Growth Mechanism, Gold nanostars, Synthesis and characterization, and Anisotropic nanoparticles
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Kavita Chandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Background: Evidence supporting a bidirectional relationship between depression and recurrent cardiovascular disease (CVD) appears strong, but there remains a need to better characterize the role of depression in CVD risk and cardiovascular health (CVH) promotion, especially in the context of comorbid risk factors such as cigarette smoking. In the present...
- Keyword:
- multiple health behaviors, depression, cardiovascular health, and smoking
- Subject:
- Clinical Psychology
- Creator:
- Allison Jane Carroll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In May 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration approved daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for adolescents under age 18. Although this is an important step toward HIV prevention for adolescents assigned male at birth who have sex with males (AMSM), limited research exists to gauge their awareness of PrEP...
- Keyword:
- sexual and gender minorities, men who have sex with men, pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV/AIDS, and adolescent sexual behavior
- Creator:
- Kathryn Macapagal
- Contributor:
- David A. Moskowitz, Aaron Kai Korpak, Kyle Jozsa, and Ashley Kraus
- Owner:
- Kathryn Macapagal
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-03-06
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- The ongoing generational shift whereby millennials are overtaking baby boomers as the largest generation in the U.S. population, along with the technology-fueled evolution of transportation patterns, offer opportunities for policy makers to leverage changing behavior and build a more sustainable future. Much research has emerged seeking to understand whether the...
- Keyword:
- Travel Behavior, Automated Vehicles, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and Millennials
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Lama Bou Mjahed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plasmonic nanostructures are capable of trapping and confining light at the nanoscale, leading to interesting optical phenomena involving enhanced light-matter interactions. These responses arise in two forms: surface plasmon polaritons propagating on the surface of metal films and localized surface plasmons confined to the surface of metal nanoparticles. Plasmonic modes...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Plasmonics, Symmetry, Nanofabrication, Nanopatterning, and Lasers
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Michael Knudson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- collocation, sentence processing, verb, preposition, and artificial language learning
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Robert Alexander Schumacher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ecological restoration is a land management tool for biological conservation in areas where ecosystems are subject to a suite of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. This approach is particularly critical in urban areas where disturbances are often frequent and substantial. Restoration projects aim to re-establish an entire ecosystem, including the native...
- Keyword:
- invasion, soil, restoration, urban ecology, and Chicago
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Lauren Umek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Both the timing (i.e., ‘when’) and amount (i.e., ‘how much’) of language exposure have been shown to affect language-learning outcomes. Monolinguals and (most) bilinguals confound these two factors of early exposure and extended exposure (i.e., their first-acquired language is their most used or dominant language), making it difficult to isolate...
- Keyword:
- speech, bilingualism, frequency, linguistics, and vocabulary
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Michael Blasingame
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Plasmonic nanocavities consisting of metal nanoparticle (NP) arrays support surface lattice resonances (SLR) or lattice plasmon, emerged as an exciting platform for manipulating light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Their recent prominence can be attributed to a combination of desirable photonic and plasmonic characteristics: high electromagnetic field enhancements extended over large...
- Keyword:
- exciton-plasmon coupling, ultrafast dynamics, Nano-lasing, stimulated emission, ASE, and Plasmonics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Weijia Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The isolation of graphene by the simple Scotch-tape method led to the discovery of many novel two-dimensional (2D) materials. Since then, many new material growth and characterization techniques were proposed and many new phenomena were observed in layered 2D materials. Black phosphorous (BP) and topological insulator(TI) \ce{Bi2Se3} are examples of...
- Keyword:
- Two-dimensional material, Disorder scaling, Anisotropy, Black phosphorous, Switching transient, and Chalcogenide
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Lintao Peng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation takes as its point of departure the commonly held premise that WWI forever changed the horizon of French literary production. While deemed indescribable, many authors did attempt to represent the battlefields and aftermath of WWI in literature. Distinct from previous heroic accounts of war, these descriptions had to...
- Keyword:
- Colonialism, French literature, Nationalism, Fascism, French Far-Right, and Masculinity in War
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Jessica Ann Neushwander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Unstructured data like text is plentiful and possibly contains valuable insights leading to a better decision-making process. Manually obtaining these insights can be costly and time-consuming. Text mining, also known as Text analytics, is developed to derive meaningful information from textual data. It is widely applied in various domains such...
- Keyword:
- Text analytics, Information retrieval, Text mining, Machine learning, and Document classification
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Papis Wongchaisuwat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of this thesis is to develop practical algorithms with sound theoretical properties for three different subfields of nonlinear optimization: (i) Optimization Algorithms for Supervised Machine Learning; (ii) Derivative-Free Optimization; and (iii) Distributed Optimization. As such, the thesis is divided into three main chapters. The focus of Chapter 2...
- Keyword:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Albert Solomon Berahas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The symbiotic relationships between ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcM) and host plants are vital for the survival and diversification of each group. Here we introduce the Suillus / Pinaceae model system to address evolutionary relationships between EcM fungi and host plants. Genus Suillus has higher host specificity than other groups of EcM...
- Keyword:
- host shift speciation, biogeography, systematics, phylogeny, evolutionary history, and Suillus
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Rui Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Up to two thirds of individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke suffer life-long residual impairments to their paretic hands, affecting their independence and quality of life. These impairments stem initially from losses of direct corticospinal projections that result in an increased reliance on indirect bulbospinal pathways. This reliance on the indirect...
- Keyword:
- Stroke, Muscle adaptation, Passive Torques, Botulinum Neurotoxin, Hand, and Computational Biomechanical Modeling
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Benjamin Isaac Binder-Markey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Computational catalysis is a challenging discipline because of the complexity of catalytic particles and the large number of reaction pathways that may occur in a given reaction. This thesis addresses these challenges with two strategies. First, an appropriate molecular model is defined that captures adequate physical and chemical details while...
- Keyword:
- computational, acrolein, catalysis, and platinum
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Christopher Englehardt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Between 1815 and 1830, the western Atlantic experienced a surge in maritime piracy. The United States was confronted with the ancient specter of hostis humani generis, the enemy of all, which threatened the safety and prosperity of the young maritime nation. Questions emerged: Who was responsible for policing international waters?...
- Keyword:
- postsovereignty, universal jurisdiction, nineteenth century, rhetoric, sovereignty, and piracy
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Robert Elliot Mills
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A central question in neuroscience is how the brain plans movements. Here, I apply neural data analysis and machine learning methods to better understand both eye and arm movement planning, in particular focusing on naturalistic settings. First, I built encoding models to investigate the factors that led to neural activity...
- Keyword:
- Frontal Eye Field, Generalized Linear Model, Saccade, Neuroscience, Premotor Cortex, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Joshua I Glaser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- agenda
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2019
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- Description:
- Conference report of the inaugural seminar of the governance in Africa program, February 17-19, 1989.
- Keyword:
- african studies
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Publisher:
- The Carter Center
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 1989
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional materials’ “all-surface” architecture presents a new paradigm for investigations into electron confinement effects and surface phenomena. However, synthesizing, characterizing, and ultimately engineering the properties of 2D materials represents a formidable challenge. This thesis presents several cases of isolating novel 2D materials via vapor-based syntheses. Vapor-based syntheses allow for reproducible...
- Keyword:
- nanoscience, chalcogenides, oxides, and 2D materials
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Eve Dorthea Townsend Hanson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) have been the most prominent electrochemical energy storage technology over the past decades and enabled the wireless evolution of portable electronic devices. Yet the expanded use of renewable but intermittent energy sources coupled with increasing demand for electric transportation vehicles put forward requirements to electrochemical energy...
- Keyword:
- First-principles calculation, Lithium ion battery, and Density functional theory
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhengpeng Yao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) in metazoans is regulated in multiple steps, including preinitiation complex (PIC) formation, initiation, Pol II escape, productive elongation, cotranscriptional RNA processing, and termination. Genome-wide studies have demonstrated that the phenomenon of promoter-bound Pol II pausing is widespread, especially for genes that respond to...
- Keyword:
- Life Sciences and Elongation
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Fei Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mucolipins are lysosomal cation channels, with high permeability to calcium ions, that are thought to regulate endolysosomal trafficking. While mucolipin 1 is expressed in all cells, mucolipin 3 is expressed in a small subset of cells (i.e. neonatal intestinal enterocytes, cochlear hair cells and marginal cells of stria vascularis). This...
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- Hearing, Enterocyte, Trpml, Lysosome, Mucolipin, and NEC
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Teerawat Wiwatpanit
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The diverse reactivity patterns, unique structural features imparted by the cumulated double bonds, and possibility of axial chirality have garnered allenes considerable attention in organic synthesis. Numerous methods have been described in the literature to afford optically active allenes starting from chiral starting materials, yet catalytic and asymmetric methods to...
- Keyword:
- Allene, Asymmetric Organocatalysis, High-Throughput Screening, Hydrazone, and Petasis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Abdallah Bachir Diagne
- Owner:
- digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Dictating Manhood: Refiguring Masculinity in Haitian Literature of Dictatorship, 1968-2010 explores the literary representations of masculinity under dictatorship. Through the works of Marie Vieux Chauvet, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Georges Castera, Kettly Mars and Dany Laferrière, my dissertation examines the effects of dictatorship on Haitian masculinity and assesses whether extreme oppression...
- Keyword:
- Haitian literature, Manhood, Sexual violence, Masculinity, Duvalier, and Dictatorship
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Ara Chi Jung
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Related article: McGrath, M.C., Gerber, A.S. Experimental evidence for a pure collaboration effect. Nat Hum Behav 3, 354–360 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0530-9
- Keyword:
- dataset, experiment, and collaboration
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2020
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The thesis contains all four chapters of my Ph.D. research on deep learning and text mining. The first chapter, "Temporal Topic Analysis with Endogenous and Exogenous Processes'', proposes a topic model which mines temporal economy-related documents with an exogenous economic indicator, and finds the relationship between document topics and the...
- Keyword:
- deep learning and text mining
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Baiyang Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation