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- Keyword:
- Block Flow Diagram
- Creator:
- James Xamplas, Karen Schmidt, and Nick Pinkerton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Keyword:
- Site Condition
- Creator:
- Minwook Kim, William Lassman, Todor Kukushliev, Alex Chandel, and Eric Jiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Keyword:
- plant capacity and Preliminary market analysis
- Creator:
- Maxim Slivinsky, Sean Cabaniss, Julianne Wagoner, and David Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Keyword:
- Define product and feed
- Creator:
- John Plaxco, Thomas Considine, Sean Kelton, and Michael Gleeson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/04/2018
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- Description:
- Data files for the Chicago Historical Homicide Project. The Chicago Historical Homicide Project began with the discovery of the availability of a rich log of more than 11,000 homicides maintained consistently and without interruption by the Chicago Police Department over the course of 60 years, from 1870 to 1930. The...
- Keyword:
- chicago historical homicide project
- Creator:
- Leigh Bienen
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/03/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The discovery of efficient and accurate descriptions for the macroscopic constitutive behavior of heterogeneous materials with complex microstructure remains an outstanding challenge in mechanics. On the one hand, great accuracy can be achieved by modeling small domains of a material including all the details in the microstructure, however, at the...
- Keyword:
- Reduced-order homogenization, Data-driven methods, Nonlinear elasto-plasticity, Self-consistent clustering analysis, Material softening and damage, and Multiscale concurrent simulation
- Subject:
- Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Creator:
- Zeliang Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Existing political science literature tells us that the common factors of political participation include factors such as civic skills, available free time, and income. However, few have expanded their studies to include to private politics, and to see what factors influence private political participation. Private political participation refers to “the...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Julia Valdes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates two different decision-making strategies, which I label “sub-dimensioning” versus “integration” that individuals employ to cope with feelings of ambivalence. “Sub-dimensioning” is defined as a strategy that involves lower-level construals where an ambivalent decision-maker represents and evaluates an attitude object in terms of its dimensions of evaluation, whereas...
- Keyword:
- Ambivalence, sub-dimensioning, dissonance, Coping strategy, Choice conflict, Need to decide, Consistency, and Integration
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Mi Jung Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the rapidly growing global demand in energy nowadays, innovation and technology become critical for a transition to renewable energy, high energy efficiency or low-carbon emission. Thin-film materials are especially favorable in energy management due to the easy integration into devices. The transport properties for heat and electrical conduction are...
- Keyword:
- Engineering
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Boya Cui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Rivers and streams are the corridors of material transport from land to sea. Solutes and particles experience a range of environments as they traverse the river network, many of which are highly reactive, and reaction rates are localized to specific regions. The interfacial region between the river and its underlying...
- Keyword:
- stochastic model, hyporheic exchange, bioturbation, sediment-water interface, and environmental transport
- Creator:
- Kevin R. Roche
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- first-price auctions, sample complexity, auctions, and revenue maximization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Samuel Taggart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In recent years, research has been conducted to develop Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART) designs. These experimental designs were created to aid in the construction of adaptive treatment strategies for individuals, particularly in medical contexts. Simultaneously, research has been done on developing the use of randomized trials to evaluate...
- Keyword:
- Statistics
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Rachel Ktsanes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Graphene and graphene oxide (GO), a highly oxidized form of graphene, are materials with incredibly interesting chemical and mechanical properties. These materials have high surface areas and electrical properties that can be tuned by reducing the amount of oxygenates on the surface. They have already demonstrated their importance in the...
- Keyword:
- Chemical Engineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- DelRae Haag
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Individuals commonly engage in collaborative behavior to more easily produce works of high societal impact. The effect of many individual characteristics such as age or gender on the effectiveness of a team is still unclear. Gender is especially pertinent because many professional settings are still far from gender parity, despite...
- Keyword:
- science of science, movie industry, gender diversity, bibliometrics, and scientific collaborations
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- João Amado Gomez Moreira
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Lewis acids are an important class of catalysts for chemical synthesis and manufacturing. Tris-(pentafluorophenyl)borane (FAB) catalyst has been discovered as an excellent Lewis acid catalyst for a great variety of reactions in organic and organometallic chemistry, particularly for alkoxylation reactions which is relevant to the industrial production of polyether alcohols....
- Keyword:
- Microkinetic modeling, Catalysis, Ring opening, DFT, Mechanism, and Lewis acid
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Ying Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) hybrid halide perovskites have emerged as front-runners in solar energy conversion applications with the potential to provide low-cost renewable energy. Being at the interface of chemistry, physics, materials science, and electrical engineering, the field of perovskite solar cells has become a top area of interest...
- Keyword:
- solar cells and perovskite
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Chan Myae Myae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While it is the ongoing growth in healthcare spending that has been making headlines, improving and maintaining healthcare quality is a critical goal of healthcare policy. In this dissertation I answer three questions relating to healthcare quality: does physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare quality; how physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare...
- Keyword:
- quality, healthcare, malpractice, and integration
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amy Rebecca Wagner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation considers the ways do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism is promoted, taken up, and responded to by the black middle class. Using thirty-eight interviews and one year of ethnographic observation in the Northwest Detroit neighborhood of Bagley, I document the following findings. First, many DIY projects have come from government and...
- Keyword:
- black middle class, Detroit, austerity, and urban neoliberalism
- Subject:
- African-American Studies
- Creator:
- Jackson Christopher Bartlett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Habits are actions taken without conscious consideration of a goal. The distinction between habits and conscious, goal-directed actions has been made for millennia. Only comparatively recently, however, have results from biological psychiatry and neuroscience begun to shed light on the existence of separable neural circuits that underlie our intuitive perception...
- Keyword:
- Basal Ganglia, Striatum, and Kainate Receptor
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- John J. Marshall
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- experimental syntax, ellipsis, syntax, and theoretical linguistics
- Subject:
- Linguistics
- Creator:
- David Potter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation, we start with the dictionary learning (DL) based single-frame super-resolution (SR) problem, where low resolution (LR) input frames are super-resolved to high resolution (HR) output frames. We propose to extend the previous single-frame SR methods to multiple-frames, i.e., estimating single HR output frame by multiple LR input...
- Keyword:
- adaptive sampling, super resolution, inverse problem, image fusion, deep learning, and machine learning
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Qiqin Dai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains several epigenetic elements known as yeast prions. Our laboratory discovered the yeast prion [SWI+], whose protein determinant is Swi1, a subunit of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex. Formation of [SWI+] results in abolishment of multicellular features and a partial loss-of-function phenotype of non-glucose carbon source usage. Our laboratory...
- Keyword:
- amyloids, protein aggregation, prion, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Swi1, and prion domain
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Stephanie Valtierra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how preparing settlements for war (i.e. fortification) relates to the maintenance of power relations. Violence has psychological and physical effects that can lead to asymmetries of power and extreme forms of social inequality (Brumfiel 1998; Carneiro 1970; Earle 1997; Fanon 1968; Farmer 2005; Flannery and Marcus 2012;...
- Keyword:
- Warfare, Maya, Practice, Landscape, Power, and Archaeology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Christopher Luis Hernandez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- MAPK-interacting kinase (MNK) signaling leads to activation of cap-dependent mRNA translation through phosphorylation of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E). In cancer cells, MNK-eIF4E signaling promotes translation of oncogenic mRNAs. In glioblastoma (GBM), the deadliest malignant brain tumor, MNK-eIF4E signaling is aberrantly activated and represents a promising therapeutic target....
- Keyword:
- MAPK-interacting kinase, Glioblastoma, and Glioma stem cells
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jonathan Brooks Bell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this presented study, rolling in micro scale level, termed as microrolling, has been advanced and extended its application to surface texturing and roll bonding. Meanwhile, continuous direct current (DC) is introduced to the processes to establish two new microrolling processes: the Electrically-assisted Roll Bonding (EARB) and the Electrically-assisted Microrolling-based...
- Keyword:
- Roll Bonding, Joule Heating Modeling, Electrically-assisted Process, Rolling, Surface Texturing, and Manufacturing
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Man-Kwan Ng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Efficient and accurate processing of internally- and externally-generated information is enhanced by the presence of multisensory signals that can provide redundant information about percepts or events. However, efficient usage of multisensory signals requires implicit perceptual knowledge of the potential or likely relationships between signals encoded within each sensory modality. If...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- John Charles Plass
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Space, time and energy are the three most fundamental elements in our intellectual understanding of the physical world. Here, I found how these same elements also contribute to a stable and coherent representation that the motor system forms by combining information from different sensory sources, such as vision, touch and...
- Keyword:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Ali Farshchiansadegh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices have been extensively studied to achieve power conversion efficiencies well above 10%. New research into alternative materials that allow for cheaper and more industrially viable fabrication of flexible solar cells has been at the forefront of the energy field for the past few...
- Keyword:
- organic solar cells, molecular weight, nonfullerenes, aggregation, and crystallinity
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Nicholas Dalton Eastham
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- replication, experiment, and collaboration
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Depositor:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/08/2020
- Date Created:
- 2017-10-25
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Keyword:
- implementation, survey manual, and water insecurity
- Creator:
- Sera Young
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/25/2018
- Resource Type:
- Report
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I pose a new puzzle about desire, one grounded in three plausible but jointly inconsistent propositions. According to the standard view in metaphysics, (1) all desires are dispositional states. Epistemologists, though, think that (2) we have privileged access to some of our desires. But (3) it is...
- Keyword:
- Self-Knowledge, Attitudes, Desire, Phenomenology, Introspection, and Dispositional States
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jared Thomas Peterson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Moving away from fossil fuels requires environmentally friendly and economically viable alternative energy sources. A wide adoption of new technologies for energy production and storage depends on better performing materials. Computational methods, such as electronic structure calculations and machine learning, hold the promise to work in conjunction with traditional experimentation...
- Keyword:
- Perovskites, Hydrogen production, Water splitting, Density functional theory, Materials discovery, and Machine learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Antoine Alexandre Emery
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Services have been constantly evolving and operational efficiency has been a key initiative for progress. In this collection of academic papers, we investigate the efficiency of three different industry practices, to each of which we dedicate a chapter. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 cover completed research, while the research covered...
- Keyword:
- Business administration
- Subject:
- Operations Management
- Creator:
- Can Ozkan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is growing interest in and demand for lightweight, age-hardenable alloys such as aluminum (Al) alloys in the transportation sector. This interest is due to the potential for reducing vehicle mass and thereby improving fuel economy. Precipitation microstructures improve the mechanical properties of materials, such as yield stress, by impeding...
- Keyword:
- Aluminum, Precipitation, First-principles calculation, Ostwald Ripening, Phase Field Model, and Age-hardening
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Kyoungdoc Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene exhibit unique, superlative electronic, optical, and mechanical properties that are dictated by the precise atomic structure within each layer. Consequently, control of this atomic-scale configuration is critical to engineering desirable characteristics. To date, however, most 2D materials have been discovered by isolating mono- or...
- Keyword:
- 2D Materials, Borophene, Graphene, Scanning tunneling microscopy, and Silicene
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Jacob Mannix
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Quantum information processing (QIP) is an emerging computational paradigm with the potential to enable a vast increase in computational power, fundamentally transforming fields from structural biology to finance. QIP employs qubits, or quantum bits, as its fundamental units of information, which can exist in not just the classical states of...
- Keyword:
- Electron paramagnetic resonance, Spin physics, Spin diffusion barrier, Qubits, T2, and Quantum computation
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Michael James Graham
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Tumor progression depends on both tumor-intrinsic processes and interactions with different cell types within tumor microenvironment. Identifying targets that have dual effects on both tumor cells and their interacting surrounding cells, such as tumor-infiltrating immune cells, represent a novel therapeutic approach to treat cancer patients CD44 is a ubiquitously expressed...
- Keyword:
- Dendritic cells, CD44s, Splice isoform, Breast Cancer, and Akt
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Sali Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Intrahepatic islet transplantation is a promising therapeutic option for the treatment of Type-1 diabetes that offers the ability to restore endogenous insulin production. Widespread use of islet transplantation is currently limited by poor survival of transplanted islets due to the harsh environment of the liver portal vein, prompting investigation into...
- Keyword:
- Immunomodulation, Biomaterials, Localized Delivery, and Islet Transplantation
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Mao-Hwa Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My dissertation, “Talking Drum: Chicago’s WVON Radio and the Sonorous Image of Black Lives, 1963-1983,” studies WVON radio as a mediating institution of the black public sphere in Cold War Chicago. “Talking Drum” explores how WVON celebrated, represented, and mobilized black public life in the mid-twentieth century amid a dominant...
- Keyword:
- WVON, Black History, Media History, Mass Communication, Chicago, and Cold War Radio
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Zachary William Mills
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Allergic diseases, including asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy, are a widespread health issue. The prevalence of these diseases has been increasing, but the mechanism behind this increase and how allergies develop is not well understood. Although the immune system is central to the pathology of allergy, recent work has...
- Keyword:
- microbiome, eosinophils, ST2, IL-33, stem cells, and allergy
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Laura Katrina Ng Johnston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) has enormous potential to become a paradigmatic model of individual differences. However, while its foundations in experimental genetic and neurophysiological research on nonhuman animals are among the strongest in personality psychology, it has perhaps not gained the foothold within the field that it deserves. It is...
- Keyword:
- modeling, reinforcement sensitivity theory, emotion, individual differences, personality, and cues-tendencies-actions model
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ashley Danielle Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Intelligent behavior in humans is largely associated with encoding information to discrete symbols. However, symbolic behavior in robotic systems is not widespread, mainly due to lack of tools that constitute symbol-based automation implementable in real time. This thesis proposes real-time algorithms that facilitate and promote symbol-based action and sensing. In...
- Keyword:
- Robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Anastasia Mavrommati
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In recent times, there has been a transition away from traditional engineering materials to more advanced materials that are multi-functional and exhibit improved thermomechanical properties. Much of the inspiration for these advanced materials comes from natural biological systems that fulfill the needs of diverse organisms through clever material organization and...
- Keyword:
- Materials Design, Computational Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling, Nanocomposites, Biomaterials, and Molecular Modeling
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert Arnold Sinko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the construction and regulation of over-the-counter derivatives markets before and after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. It addresses two questions: How did the market for derivatives traded outside traditional exchanges grow so large and crisis-prone with so little public regulation? And, why, given derivatives’ contribution to the...
- Keyword:
- regulation, governance, derivatives, markets, finance, and authority
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Erin Lockwood
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores public and private hybridity in the production of sovereign power, or hybrid sovereignty, through the cases of the English East India Company, Blackwater, International Chamber of Commerce, and Amnesty International. It asks: What forms and dynamics are featured in hybrid sovereignty? What implications does hybrid sovereignty have...
- Keyword:
- International Relations
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Swati Srivastava
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury (SCI) is devastating, dramatically reducing the independence of affected individuals. Currently, functional electrical stimulation (FES), controlled by a patient’s residual movements, is used clinically to restore a limited range of voluntary movement. However, if FES could be controlled using signals recorded from the brain,...
- Keyword:
- brain-machine interfaces, motor cortex, and neuromodulation
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Stephanie Naufel Naufel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Mounting public concern about a school-to-prison pipeline has put schools and districts under increasing pressure to reduce their use of suspensions, expulsions and arrests. Many are turning to restorative justice practices (RJP) as a promising alternative for addressing school discipline and improving school climate. However, implementing RJP in a high-quality,...
- Keyword:
- school discipline, restorative justice, multi-level, institutionalization, and implementation
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Eleanor Robinson Anderson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The electronic materials research driving Moore’s law has provided several decades of increasingly powerful yet simultaneously miniaturized computer technologies. As we approach the physical and practical limits of what can be accomplished with silicon electronics, we look to new materials to drive innovation in future electronic applications. New materials paradigms...
- Keyword:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Julian McMorrow
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Supported metal catalysts find many important uses in areas including chemical production, petroleum refining and emission control. The catalytic behavior of a supported metal catalyst is influenced by size and type of reaction sites on metal nanoparticles. For many structure insensitive reactions catalyzed by the supported metal catalysts, smaller metal...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Zhenyu Bo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is a need for alternative biomanufacturing solutions to produce novel medicines and help solve long-standing issues regarding difficult-to-treat diseases. Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) provides scientists with a new paradigm for producing proteins with an unprecedented freedom and control over the biomolecular machinery involved. In this document, I describe my...
- Keyword:
- antibodies, genome engineering, non-canonical amino acid, synthetic biology, and Cell-free protein synthesis
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Rey William Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation