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- Semiconducting nanoelectronic materials, including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess interesting optoelectronic properties that could enable next-generation electronics, sensing technologies, and biomedicine. In this thesis, biomolecule-assisted dispersion and assembly of these nanomaterials are explored for human toxicity, environmental hazard potential, and applications in supramolecular hydrogels. Liquid-based...
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- Carbon Nanomaterials, Toxicity, Biofunctionalization, Supramolecular Hydrogel, and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nikita Mansukhani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this thesis I present the theoretical work on Fermionic surface states, and bulk Bosonic collective excitations in topological superfluids and superconductors. Broken symmetries in topological condensed matter systems have implications for the spectrum of Fermionic excitations confined on surfaces or topological defects. For the B-phase of superfluid 3He, which...
- Keyword:
- Physics and Topological Superfluids
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Hao Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis discusses the application of advanced digital signal and image processing techniques, particularly the technique known as super-resolution (SR), to enhance the imagery produced by cameras mounted on an airborne platform such as an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). SR is an image processing technology applicable to any digital, pixilated...
- Keyword:
- Photogrammetry, Image Processing, Remote Sensing, and Superresolution
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew Collier Woods
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Raman spectroscopy is an established and versatile molecular sensing technique, but it is limited by its modest chemical sensitivity. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) can amplify otherwise weak normal Raman signals up to nine to ten orders of magnitude, giving rise to its application in many molecular sensing problems, including those...
- Keyword:
- electrochemistry, Raman spectroscopy, SERS, and spectroelectrochemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Stephanie Zaleski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We introduce and advocate a new paradigm in simulation experiment design and analysis, called ``green simulation,'' for the setting in which experiments are performed repeatedly with the same simulation model but different input parameters. In this dissertation three classes of green simulation estimators are proposed: the likelihood-ratio-based estimators, the metamodeling-based...
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- simulation, database monte carlo, metamodeling, nested simulation, likelihood ratio method, and stochastic kriging
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mingbin Feng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This work argues that Latina/o immigrant Charismatic Catholicism does not encourage passive hope for heavenly rewards but rather emphasizes active strategies for transforming the self and the world. This study responds to two major concerns in the field of religious studies: the concern that Pentecostal forms of Christianity emphasize an...
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- Sin, Charismatic Catholic, Addiction, Latina/o Immigrant, Depression, and Conversion
- Subject:
- Religious Studies
- Creator:
- Lynn Brigid Elizabeth Jencks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Interprotein electron transfer (ET) occupies a central role in both chemistry and biology, as it is important in a variety of functions including cellular respiration, metabolism, and energy transduction during photosynthesis. Consequently, understanding the protein-protein recognition and docking that controls interprotein ET is an important field of scientific research. One...
- Keyword:
- myoglobin, electron transfer, and protein binding
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jon Vander Woude
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- An atom interferometric gyroscope (AIG) made with an uncorrelated ensemble of N two-level atoms, rotating at a rate ΩG about an axis normal to the area Θ accrues a phase ϕ = 2ωCΘΩG/c2 due to the Sagnac effect. Here ωC is the Compton frequency of the atoms used, and c...
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- Schrödinger cat states, Atomic Interferometer, Heisenberg limit, and Collective States
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Resham Sarkar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) is a potentially blinding inflammatory condition initiated by corneal infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV). As its name suggests, the host receptor herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) facilitates HSV entry through interactions with a viral envelope glycoprotein. HVEM also bridges several signaling networks, binding ligands from...
- Keyword:
- herpes stromal keratitis, herpes simplex virus, immunopathology, inflammation, and cornea
- Subject:
- Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Rebecca Giovanna Edwards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- A stroke can occur at any point throughout the lifespan, including in utero. The timing of the injury relative to neural development can have implications on the type of lesion, plasticity, and motor deficits. However, associated reactions, which refer to involuntary movement in one limb in response to voluntary activity...
- Keyword:
- hemiplegia and interlimb coupling
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Rachel Lauren Hawe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation studies a variety of consumer behaviors and their strategic implications for firm profit maximization. The first chapter discusses how bundle pricing (via shipping policies) allows firms to achieve higher profits than component pricing when consumers's tastes for products are correlated. The second chapter illustrates how durable good producers...
- Keyword:
- demand dynamics, bundle pricing, and secondary markets
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tongtong Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- An accurate knowledge of the engineering properties of rocks is crucial for a variety of geomechanical problems, ranging from wellbore stability to failure in rock slopes, underground excavations, and crustal faults. While strength and deformation properties are usually obtained from a limited number of in situ and/or laboratory tests, their...
- Keyword:
- Civil Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Shiva Esna Ashari Esfahani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Growing energy and climate concerns in the United States and across the world demand improvements in energy efficiency, conservation, and renewability. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are highly efficient devices that electrochemically convert the chemical energy of a fuel to electricity. These devices can operate on natural gas as a...
- Keyword:
- Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Patrick Kevin Duffy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The progressive women’s movement in the United States during the mid-twentieth century enjoyed increased support and success until national politics were dominated by conservatives during the 1980s. This dissertation analyzes the discourse around women’s issues created by two of the largest conservative women’s organizations, Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for...
- Keyword:
- women's politics, religious women, counterpublics, 1980s, and newsletters
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Anndrea Michelle Mathers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation draws on a field-level, qualitative study of business analytics to explore the legitimation and design of knowledge practices. In the last few decades, both the power and the acceptance of business analytics have advanced dramatically; nonetheless, end-users and clients can still be deeply sceptical of particular analytics practices...
- Keyword:
- Organizational Theory
- Subject:
- Management and Organizations
- Creator:
- Christopher William John Steele
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The circadian clock is a biological oscillator present in all terrestrial life forms that aligns organismal functions with the daily rising and setting of the sun. In mammals clocks are expressed both in pacemaker cells in the brain that are directly entrained by light as well as in all peripheral...
- Keyword:
- Pancreatic beta cell, Genomics, Diabetes, and Circadian rhythm
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Mark Perelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The ability to track labeled cancer cells in vivo would allow researchers to study their distribution, growth and metastatic potential within the intact organism. Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is invaluable for tracking cancer cells in vivo as it benefits from high spatial resolution and absence of ionizing radiation. However, many...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology and Chemistry
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Nikhil Ram Mohan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A disconnect exists between the behavior of transcriptional and genetic regulation in bacterial systems when comparing phenotypic patterns and dynamics of a population to those observed at the single cell level. In this thesis, we developed a number of tools and assays to better understand, overcome, and predict the challenges...
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- Synthetic Biology, Bacterial Signalling, Genomic Regulation, Conjugation, and Genomic Heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Andrew Hilz Scarpelli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- CD1 molecules represent a class of antigen presenting molecules that present lipid antigens to cognate T cells. These molecules have been identified in all mammals examined so far. Unlike MHC molecules, which are highly polymorphic, CD1 molecules exhibit limited polymorphism and are divided in to two groups – 1 and...
- Keyword:
- Immunology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sreya Bagchi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- How mental representations are constructed and how they evolve are central problems for cognitive science. Representation decisions help determine what computations are hard or easy. Structured, relational representations are a hallmark of human cognition. Developmental studies show that children do not perform as well as adults in tasks that require...
- Keyword:
- Representation learning, developmental model, relational representation, and structure mapping
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Balasubramanian Kandaswamy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful technique for characterizing molecular systems. It combines the chemical selectivity of vibrational spectroscopy with plasmonic signal enhancement to achieve the ultimate limit of detection--a single molecule. By overcoming the effects of ensemble averaging, single molecule SERS (SMSERS) probes distributions in molecular interactions and...
- Keyword:
- hot spots, SMSERS, SERS, and Single Molecule
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alyssa Zrimsek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells aim to provide efficient, flexible and lightweight photovoltaics (PV) with simple processing and low-cost. Advances in device optimization, structural and molecular design, as well as mechanistic understanding have helped increase device efficiency and performance. Within the framework of active layer optimization, systematically improving bulk heterojunction...
- Keyword:
- bulk heterojunction, solar cell, Self-assembly, hydrogen bonding, morphology, and Organic photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Taner Aytun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- By 2020, there will be more than 200 billion sensor enabled objects world-wide in the Internet of Things (IoT). The biggest challenge of future IoT is to provide ultra scalable wireless access for a massive number of devices. The goal of this thesis is to build up a model for...
- Keyword:
- sparse OFDM, neighbor discovery, compressed sensing, Internet of Things, and many user
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chen Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, we present three empirical studies investigating the role of linguistic experience in the processing of probabilistic information during speech production, speech perception, and across modalities. In all studies, we focus on a particular type of probabilistic information related to the probability of a word in a discourse...
- Keyword:
- probabilistic reduction, Lingustics, and Perception
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- Erin Gustafson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Worldwide, governments are beginning to take action to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions in order to mitigate the extent of global climate change. The largest fraction of global CO2 emission comes from electrical power generation, which is rapidly being converted to wind and solar installations. The intermittent nature of renewable resources...
- Keyword:
- SOC, Fuel Cells, SOEC, SOFC, Electrolysis, and Energy Storage
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Justin Railsback
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) are nanoparticle bioconjugates that have found use in a wide-range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. These nanomaterials are composed from inorganic or organic core nanoparticle scaffolds that are functionalized with a dense surface layer of nucleic acids (typically DNA or RNA) that are oriented in a...
- Keyword:
- Diagnostic, Gold nanoparticle, Cancer, Bioassay, and Spherical Nucleic Acid
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Alexander Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The striatum is a subcortical nucleus that regulates a number of complex activities ranging from voluntary action selection to the subconscious formation of habit. The coordination of these operations is mediated by the principle cells of the striatum, spiny projection neurons (SPNs). SPN activity is dictated by a confluence of...
- Keyword:
- plasticity, interneurons, striatum, nitric oxide, and acetylcholine
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Alexandria Ellen Melendez-Zaidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The FDA approvals of afatinib and ibrutinib in 2013 led to a heightened interest in cysteine-reactive covalent inhibitors. However, there are few methods to discover new cysteine-reactive inhibitors for enzymes for which reversible binding scaffolds are not known. To this end, we rationally designed a chemical system to attach a...
- Keyword:
- Electrophile, Covalent, Fragment, Ubiquitin, and Nedd4-1
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Stefan Kathman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chronic pain is a prevalent and under-treated condition that remains a mystery to the medical system and a major social and economic problem. Unfortunately, there is no single treatment superior to others for relieving chronic pain. While recent scientific discoveries have provided us with functional and anatomical brain biomarkers of...
- Keyword:
- memory, chronic pain, neuroimaging, latent semantic analyses, placebo, and personality
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sara Elizabeth Berger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation develops and applies coupled marine sulfur and strontium cycle modeling to the highly dynamic Early Cretaceous demonstrating the value of increased model constraint from linkage of biogeochemical cycles with shared forcing factors. A foundation for this work is first provided by review of relevant geochemical, sedimentological, and paleontological...
- Keyword:
- isotopes, modeling, Cretaceous, Sulfur, and Strontium
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Brian Kristall
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Even though renal blood flow accounts for nearly a quarter of cardiac output, the renal medulla operates in an environment with a scant supply of oxygen. The reason for this apparent discrepancy is thought to be threefold. Blood flow to the outer medulla is less than 50% of that received...
- Keyword:
- Oxygenation, Kidney, and MRI
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jon Thacker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Broadband networks are one of the most economically significant and fastest growing sectors of the Internet. Recent studies have shown that providing broadband Internet access is instrumental for social and economic development. Several governments, as well as the UN, have gone so far as to label broadband access a basic...
- Keyword:
- Internet measurement, Broadband reliability, Natural experiments, Broadband access networks, and Internet
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Zachary Scott Bischof
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The behavior of ions in liquids confined between macromolecules determines the outcome of many nanoscale assembly processes in synthetic and biological materials such as colloidal dispersions, emulsions, hydrogels, DNA, cell membranes, and proteins. Theoretically, the macromolecule-liquid boundary is often modeled as a dielectric interface and an important quantity of interest...
- Keyword:
- Interface structure, Electrolytes, Molecular Dynamics, Soft Matter, and Electrostatics
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Yufei Jing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) and other amorphous oxide semiconductors are attracting increasing attention from the display industry for their high electron mobility, ease of large-area manufacture, and potential for future flexible electronics. However, such amorphous materials often show instability under gate voltage bias, temperature, and illumination stress, with extremely slow relaxation...
- Keyword:
- Modelling, Material Science, Thin Films, and Photoconductivity
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jiajun Luo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We argue that a country’s level of wealth inequality can be viewed as a reflection of the quality of its housing rental market. Using the ECB’s Household Finance and Consump- tion Survey (HFCS), we document that the aggregate homeownership rate and various measures of wealth inequality are negatively correlated across...
- Keyword:
- OLG Model, Rental Markets, Housing investment, and Wealth Inequality
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sebastian Kohls
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Lattice models of fermions, bosons, and spins have long served to elucidate the essential physics of quantum phase transitions in a variety of systems. Generalizing such models to incorporate driving and dissipation has opened new vistas to investigate nonequilibrium phenomena and dissipative phase transitions in interacting many-body systems. Circuit- QED...
- Keyword:
- Circuit-QED lattices, Nonequilibrium many-body physics, Nonequilibrium perturbation theory, and Dissipative phase transitions
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Cheong Yiu Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The properties of crystalline materials are controlled by their composition and by their structure, however, the structure of a crystal is only partly controlled by its composition. Development of specifically directed inorganic syntheses will require an understanding of the dynamics of crystal phase forming processes, especially those processes involved in...
- Keyword:
- noncentrosymmetry, oxyflouride, crystal, and reconstructive transition
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael John Holland
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I present research in systems of biomedical relevance consisting of agents near or com- prising surfaces using computational approaches. The research topics include formation of bacterial biofilms, behavior of charged species near stacked, like-charged lamellae, and the the conformational behavior of lamellae with strong self-attraction. In chapter 2, I present...
- Keyword:
- biophysics, soft matter, molecular dynamics, coarse graining , self assembly, and computer simulations
- Subject:
- Material Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Bernard McAlpine Beckerman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The microwave, optical, and electro-optic properties of epitaxial barium titanate thin films grown on (100) MgO substrates and photonic crystal electro-optic modulators fabricated on these films were investigated to demonstrate the applicability of these devices for telecommunication and data networks. The electrical and electro-optical properties were characterized up to modulation...
- Keyword:
- Photonic Crystal, Modulator, Integrated Photonics, and Ferroelectric
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Peter Girouard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The purpose of the dissertation is to develop a framework for equilibration of activity-trip chain demand in an integrated system of activity scheduling and travel choices within a dynamic network equilibrium framework. Activity-based modeling systems generate detailed activity chain schedules for individuals, which have to be assigned to transportation networks....
- Keyword:
- Transport, Civil Engineering, Travel Choices, and Engineering
- Subject:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Hooram Halat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Pattern recognition algorithms have been proposed as a way to control powered lower limb prostheses, specifically for transitioning between the different pre-programmed locomotion modes of the prosthesis (e.g., level ground walking, stair ascent, etc.). However, these algorithms cannot track changes in the statistical characteristics of input signals, and do not...
- Keyword:
- Prosthetics, Adaptation, Rehabilitation, Engineering, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- John Andreou Spanias
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Consent is at the center of feminist politics and theory; the importance of this concept is evident in the recent campus activism around sexual assault. Because consent has become so critically important, it is necessary for feminists to interrogate the concept of consent. In this dissertation, I argue that consent...
- Keyword:
- Feminist, Consent, and Critiques
- Subject:
- Philosphy
- Creator:
- Chelsea Egbert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Catalyzed by the invention of magnetic tape recording, audio production has transformed from technical to artistic, and the roles of producer, engineer, composer, and performer have merged for many forms of music. However, while these roles have changed, the way we interact with audio production tools has not and still...
- Keyword:
- human computer interaction, music, intelligent user interfaces, audio production, creativity support tools, and crowdsourcing
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Mark Brozier Cartwright
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Using Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, we prove here a result concerning the equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants for the projective line equipped with the standard action of the 2-torus. Our result is that the genus g, n point Gromov-Witten potential with arbitrary primary insertions may be written as a sum over certain genus...
- Keyword:
- Gromov Witten Theory and Eynard Orantin Recursion
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Michael John Couch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We study analytic functions on the open unit p-adic poly-disk centered at the multiplicative identity and prove that such functions only vanish at finitely many n-tuples of roots of unity unless they vanish along a translate of the formal multiplicative group. (Note that a root of unity lies on the...
- Keyword:
- Manin-Mumford and p-adic
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Vlad Ioan Serban
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Meeting the exploding demand for wireless data services will require access to new wireless spectrum. However, the traditional approach of clearing spectrum and reallocating is becoming increasingly difficult. This in turn has led to much interest in new approaches for sharing spectrum among different users, such as the those being...
- Keyword:
- Investment, Competition, Shared Spectrum, and Electrical Engineering
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Chang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Anisotropic semiconducting thin films have attracted attention in recent years for important applications such as electrical interconnects, electronic sensors, field-emission devices and thermoelectric devices. However, the characterization of the full conductivity tensor, especially the cross-plane conductivity, remains a great challenge for anisotropic thin films. In addition, the synthesis of large-area...
- Keyword:
- magnetotransport, anisotropic, graphene, transverse thermoelectrics, thin film, and 3D printing
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yang Tang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The behavior of type-II superconductors is modeled using the time-dependent Ginzburg Landau equations (TDGLE). Pinning centers (inclusions) and geometries which maximize the critical current that can be passed through a superconductor are numerically obtained. Previous analytical results are summarized and new results are obtained for the critical current in one...
- Keyword:
- Phase Slips, Magnetic Vortices, Dynamical Systems, Optimization, and Superconductivity
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gregory Jonathan Kimmel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation develops a two-stage inference method for structural parameters in the linear instrumental variables model. In the first stage, a new statistic is used to detect whether the correlation between the structural error and the reduced form error is small. In the second stage, a...
- Keyword:
- Inference and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sun Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Stroke is the leading cause of death and long term disability in the industrialized world. With the current population aging, the number of individuals at risk of stroke along with the associated health care costs are anticipated to rise considerably in the coming years. Consequently, there is an unmet need...
- Keyword:
- Medical imaging
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Charles Grady Cantrell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation