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- 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...
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- 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
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- Dissertation
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- 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...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
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- Computational models greatly benefit metabolic engineering efforts by helping to elucidate experimental observations and predict engineering targets for improved cellular performance. Additionally, supplementing experimental efforts with computational modeling can reduce the loss of time and resources in the lab by narrowing down testing conditions. In optimal cases, computational models can...
- Keyword:
- Bioengineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jennifer Lane Greene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis reports on the use of optical antennas, and more broadly, metal optics for the engineered collection and enhancement of infrared photodetectors. These ideas would be useful in enhancing at other wavelengths and other types of detectors, but this work is specifically focused on the Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector...
- Keyword:
- QWIP, Antennas, and Beam-Forming
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert Louis Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The rational and deliberate assembly of functional materials from nanoscale building blocks requires a fundamental understanding of interactions between individual components as well as their collective behavior. This thesis investigates the hierarchical organization of nanoparticles using DNA into well-defined three-dimensional materials on the micrometer and millimeter length scales. This assembly...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Self Assembly, DNA, Colloidal Crystals, Thin Film, and Epitaxy
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Mary Wang
- Owner:
- digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of two papers united by a common element: they both study the behavior of heterogeneous agents across the business cycle. In Chapter 1, I consider: what is the link between the drop in consumer credit during the Great Recession and increased unemployment? I build a heterogeneous household...
- Keyword:
- recession, exit, unemployment, entry, productivity, and credit
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brian Boyd O'Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In recent decades, scholars and activists have written extensively on the immense growth of America’s penal system, its origins in fear-based, racially coded politics and neoliberal reformations, its distressingly ineffective and unjust outcomes, and its central place as a social institution in the contemporary United States. Yet this dominant discourse...
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- Collateral consequences, Legal history, Punishment, Social constructionism, Criminal law, and Race and ethnicity
- Creator:
- Joshua Kaiser
- Owner:
- digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Following a stroke, precise, individuated control of single joints is often replaced by highly stereotyped patterns of multi-joint movement, due to a loss of independent joint control, which can negatively impact functional use of the paretic arm. Despite the debilitating nature of this impairment, the precise underlying neural mechanisms remain...
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- MR imaging, motor control, brainstem, and stroke
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Meriel Ann Owen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Agents of online platforms often have to make purchase decisions in the face the uncertainty of the true value of an item. Observing the other agents’ actions and/or reviews is one common method to learn about an item. However such observational learning can lead to an information cascade, in which...
- Keyword:
- Information cascades, Bayesian Learning, Data Science, Game Theory, Social Networks, and Markov chain
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Tho Ngoc Le
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Unveiling Baubo” describes how the mythical figure Baubo was constructed in nineteenth-century German. Associated with the act of exposing herself to the goddess Demeter, Baubo came to epitomize questions about concealment and unveiling in the budding fields of archaeology, philology, psychoanalysis and literary theory. As I show in my dissertation,...
- Keyword:
- Nietzsche, Priene, Wiegand, Goethe, Classical Reception, and Greek myth
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Frederika Tevebring
- Owner:
- digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- algorithms, electrolyte, Monte Carlo simulation, molecular dynamics, dielectrics, and patchy colloid
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Huanxin Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The reforms called for by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (National Research Council, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013) involve students using scientific and engineering practices to construct disciplinary knowledge with others. For this work to be meaningful, students need to understand what they were doing and how their actions...
- Keyword:
- professional development,, epistemology, argumentation, and modeling
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Abraham Sillan Lo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- mechanical properties, nanocomposites, atomistic simulations, materials genome initiative, graphene oxide, and fracture toughness
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- Rafael Antonio Soler-Crespo
- Owner:
- digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates a single-column model for Arctic energy balance in the limit as a smoothing parameter associated with ice-albedo feedback tends to zero. This limit is a common modeling approximation used in conceptual climate models, and we explore the implications of taking this limit on bifurcations associated with the...
- Keyword:
- ice-albedo feedback, Filippov, climate tipping points, Arctic sea ice, and nonsmooth dynamical system
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Kaitlin Hill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The aim of this dissertation is to make sense of nearly a century and a half's worth of observations concerning skin based electroadhesion phenomena. While this is a noble goal in and of itself, further motivation of this work is drawn from fact that the electroadhesive effect is increasingly being...
- Keyword:
- electroadhesion, haptics, bioimpedance, and frictio
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Craig D. Shultz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spinal cord injury occurs with a worldwide incidence of 13-33 cases per million per year, and more than 2.5 million patients worldwide suffer from spinal cord injury (SCI)-related disability (1, 2). Different methods have been attempted to promote axonal regeneration, including neurotrophin injection, hydrogel injection, olfactory ensheathing cells implantation and...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Cord Injury, Fibrosis, and Therapeutics
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Suji Jeong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The unprecedented crimes of World War Two, especially those committed by the Nazi state, unleashed an equally unprecedented effort to hold perpetrators accountable and secure justice for millions of victims. This effort encompassed hundreds of trials of thousands of individuals in the immediate postwar period and continues to the present...
- Keyword:
- Holocaust, Nazis, War Crimes Trials, British Occupation, Royal Warrant, and World War Two
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Beth A. Healey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The anode and cathode are main components in a battery system. In this dissertation, Group IV inter-metallics and LiMn2O4 are studied as anode and cathode materials for Li-ion batteries respectively. Preliminary investigation of a multi-valent cathode material for next generation batteries is also introduced. Group IV inter-metallics electrochemically alloy with...
- Keyword:
- Multi-valent, Germanium, Cathode, X-ray, LiMn2O4, and Anode
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Xiao Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Greater interest in self-directed professions, like entrepreneurship, have led to a growth in informal workplace communities and social technologies that support new ways of working. However, we have little understanding of how these socio-technical environments support opportunities for professional skill development. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how...
- Keyword:
- Online communities, Social computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Makerspaces, Crowdfunding, and Online learning
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Julie Hui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Understanding electrical circuits can be difficult for novices of all ages (Grotzer & Sudbury, 2000; Osborne, 1983; Shipstone, 1984; Tarciso Borges, 1999). Research shows that novices tend to have inadequate understandings of what happens at the level of atoms and electrons, leading to difficulty predicting the outcomes of electrical circuits...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Elham Beheshti Zavareh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) is a useful technique for study of biological samples. XFM was used to map and quantify endogenous biological elements as well as exogenous materials in biological samples, such as the distribution of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles are produced for many different purposes, including development...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Xray Fluorescence Microscopy, Radiation Oncology, and Cancer Nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Koshonna Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 12/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce useful compounds from renewable substrates is a promising means for sustainable, on-demand production of chemicals. However, efforts to design and engineer microbial cell factories are constrained by costly and slow “build” times in which each genetic variation requires re-engineering a new strain for each...
- Keyword:
- metabolic engineering, cell-free, synthetic biology, prototyping, and limonene
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Quentin Merle Dudley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The limits of miniaturization of electronic device components and the steady need for faster computation power have motivated the discovery and cultivation of low-dimensional materials. Among these, two-dimensional (2D) materials have exhibited a wide range of superlative optoelectronic, thermal and mechanical properties. The interest in 2D materials took-off with the...
- Keyword:
- mixed-dimensional heterostructures, two-dimensional materials, and van der Waals heterostructure
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Itamar Balla
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mechanisms for sensing fluid flow are well studied in arthropods and in some aquatic mammals, but we know very little about how terrestrial mammals detect and localize airflow (Chapter 1). In this thesis, I will describe a series of studies in rodents that investigate the behavioral, mechanical, and neural basis...
- Keyword:
- Flow sensing, Anemotaxis, Wind, Trigeminal, Odor tracking, and Whisker
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yan S.W. Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Literary critics typically oppose chronological and anachronistic historiographical schemes. In paired readings of early modern and contemporary poets, my dissertation, “The Shock of the Old: Periodization, Poetics, and Diachronic Exchange between the Renaissance and the Avant-Garde” investigates a series of poetic texts that defy this opposition. The poetic objects I...
- Keyword:
- diachronic, genre, Poetics, Queer, Periodization, and form
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Toby Altman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The rodent whisker system is a widely used model to study the sense of touch. Its neuroanatomy parallels that of the human, but its mechanics are vastly simplified compared to that of the human tactile system. Just like other modalities with complex sensor accessory structures, the geometry, mechanics, and material...
- Keyword:
- rat, mouse, vibrissa, and seal
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Hayley Belli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many stroke survivors are left with residual movement impairments. Treating these impairments has proven difficult, because it is often unclear which mechanisms drive movement impairment. While the exact mechanisms are still uncertain, at present, evidence suggests that neuromuscular function is disrupted in two key domains following stroke: muscle biomechanics, and...
- Keyword:
- Motor Neurons, Stroke, Movement Disorders, Shear wave elastography, and Muscle
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Lai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Decentralized algorithms, Environmental estimation, Distributed algorithms, Environmental monitoring, and Swarm Robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew L. Elwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The expanding use of nanomaterials in consumer products challenges scientists to understand the impact of these materials before their inevitable release into the environment. In the same way that the widespread use of DDT and asbestos has caused unforeseen negative impacts on both the environment and on human health, the...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Sum Frequency Scattering, Sum Frequency Generation, Nano-Biointerface, and Nonlinear Optics
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Laura Olenick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Eosinophils are major effector cells in diseases including asthma, rhinitis, certain gastrointestinal disorders and atopic dermatitis. Current treatments include mediator antagonists and anti-inflammatory drugs that reduce allergic cell numbers and inhibit mediator release, but they are not fully effective or curative. On their surface, eosinophils selectively express Siglec-8 (sialic acid-binding...
- Keyword:
- Siglec-8, Eosinophils, Apoptosis, and Signaling
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Daniela Janevska Carroll
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Psychosocial stress is part of everyday life, and while ubiquitous, stress plays a huge role disease development and treatment. Though the stressor’s intensity, predictability, and frequency (acute vs chronic) are important determinants of disease development, interactions with one’s genetic and epigenetic make-up also play a causal role. Major Depressive Disorder...
- Keyword:
- coping, HCN, Hyperpolarization activated current, gastrointestinal motilit, stress, and mice
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Daniel W. Fisher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many species have lost their natural habitat due to anthropogenic land use change. Ecologists are increasingly looking at habitat in cities to bolster efforts to conserve biodiversity. Green roofs are examples of urban habitats that are becoming more common globally. Green roofs can provide resources to support life in an...
- Keyword:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Kelly Ksiazek Mikenas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The Bcl-2 family is considered the guardian of the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. While there are numerous endogenous Bcl-2 antagonists that share similar homology, structure, topology, and expression pattern, only the loss of Bim in mice is sufficient to lead to the development of a systemic autoimmunity. Even loss of both...
- Keyword:
- Apoptosis
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- FuNien Tsai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most lubricants contain a series of additives that reduce friction and wear, and protect contacting surfaces. The design of these additives must be modernized to meet the challenges involved with high operating temperatures, extreme environmental conditions, and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. This research demonstrates three novel lubricant additive strategies that...
- Keyword:
- Additives, Wear, Lubrication, Friction, and Tribology
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Blake Johnson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system delivers effector proteins directly into target cells, allowing the bacterium to modulate host cell functions. ExoU is the most cytotoxic of the known effector proteins and has been associated with more severe infections in humans. Previous studies have shown that ExoU is a...
- Keyword:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ExoU, and oligomerization
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Angelica Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Photovoltaic technology can help meet the exploding world energy demand in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are especially attractive because they can be constructed with low-cost organic content and are amenable to high-throughput large-scale fabrication techniques. Synthetic modification of organic semiconductors has paved way for the...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Amod Timalsina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The promise of next-generation electronics, which combines features such as mechanical flexibility, optical transparency, and relatively low-cost, has stimulated tremendous research efforts during the past few years. As perhaps the most fundamental component of an electronic circuit, the design and optimization of the thin film transistor (TFT) is of great...
- Keyword:
- Characterization, X-ray, Thin Film, Metal Oxides, and Dielectrics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Li Zeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In his Nobel lecture Herbert Kroemer famously stated that “The interface is the device”. While he made this statement in the context of semiconducting heterostructures, it has proven to be just as relevant for more complex materials, such as the transition metal oxides. In particular, the 2-D conducting gas that...
- Keyword:
- Strongly Correlated Electrons, Low Temperature Physics, Electrical Anisotropy, Superconductivity, Electrical Transport, and Complex Oxides
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Samuel K. Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation