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- Soft materials in nature are formed through programmed self-assembly of biomolecules to create complex architectures and optimized physical properties. It is therefore a key challenge in biomaterials science and engineering to understand the principles that govern the structure and properties of such materials, and the interactions between their different components....
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Sangji, Mohammad Hussain
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_816157 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15536
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- This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850-1930. Invented in Tokyo in 1870, rickshaws proliferated across Asia and became a symbol of modern...
- Subject:
- History, Asian history, and Asian studies
- Creator:
- Li, Youjia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15712 and etdadmin_upload_843304
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- Description:
- Nanoparticle synthesis is capable of producing particles with any combination of structure, chemistry, size, shape, and surface. All of the different combinations of these physical properties can produce nanoparticles with almost countless materials properties suited for many applications. Given this interest in using nanoparticles in so many different fields, including...
- Keyword:
- nanoparticle growth, thermodynamics, nanoparticles, kinetics, hydrothermal synthesis, and crystal growth
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Ly, Tiffany
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15645 and etdadmin_upload_832870
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- One of the central challenges in solid-state chemistry is synthetic control over structure. Owing to limited reactivity of Pb with transition metals at ambient pressure and high temperature as well as the variety of properties that emerge from the few known binary transition-metal–Pb compounds, this research focuses on accessing and...
- Subject:
- Chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Tamerius, Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845128 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15755
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- Description:
- Newborns are particularly susceptible to severe forms of herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1) infection including encephalitis and multisystemic disseminated disease. The underlying age-dependent differences in the immune response that explain this increased susceptibility relative to the adult population remain largely understudied. Evidence from animal studies and genetic studies in...
- Keyword:
- Interferon Response, HSV, Neonatal Immunity, and Encephalitis
- Subject:
- Virology and Immunology
- Creator:
- Giraldo Perez, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15674 and etdadmin_upload_838287
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three papers on methods for meta-analysis with few studies. These papers are concerned with proper inference from meta-analysis models that combine data from a small number of studies using fixed and random-effects models. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to meta-analysis, the motivation for this work and...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Zejnullahi, Rrita
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845508 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15774
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- “‘The Indians Say’: Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of North America, 1722 to 1848” examines the issue of evidence and credibility within natural history by following the circulation of Indigenous testimony through Anglophone networks of scientific knowledge production. By merging the history of science with Native American and Indigenous...
- Keyword:
- testimony , history of science , settler colonialism , and natural history
- Subject:
- American history and Native American studies
- Creator:
- Jones, Emma Bennett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841673 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15701
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- Description:
- This thesis proposes a robust multi-pronged approach to study the effect of nanoparticles on cells. In the first place, this work is focused on investigation of the protein corona that accumulates on the surface of nanoparticles internalized by the cells and their poly-pathway effects on protein availability and messenger RNA...
- Keyword:
- PARP, Nanoparticles, BIRC5, XFM, and SR-FTIR
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology, Biology, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Lastra, Ruben Omar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_837951 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15671
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- Description:
- Manufacturing processes are known for their intricacies in changing material shapes and properties. New generations of manufacturing technologies, known as flexible manufacturing, are moving toward design freedom, which allows producing parts with optimized geometries and high customizations at an affordable cost even for low-volume productions. Two prominent flexible manufacturing processes...
- Keyword:
- Neural Network, Reinforcement Learning, Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, and Artificial Intelligence
- Subject:
- Computational physics, Mechanical engineering, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Mozaffar, Mojtaba
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15685 and etdadmin_upload_839531
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three studies related to parental employment, maternity leave policy, and early care and education. In study 1, my coauthor and I evaluate the impact of parenthood on men and women’s job performance and career advancement using detailed data from the U.S. Marines. For parents who remain...
- Subject:
- Education, Public policy, and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Healy, Olivia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844713 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15746
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the poetry and culture of the late-Soviet era of Stagnation (1964-1985) through a broadly conceived cultural metaphor of stagnation. The five Russian poets and one American poet in this study- Viktor Krivulin, Alexei Parshchikov, Aleksandr Eremenko, Ivan Zhdanov, Elena Shvarts, and Lyn Hejinian- each engage with a...
- Keyword:
- Russian Intellectual History , Russian Postmodernism , Soviet Underground , Russian Poetry, Soviet Stagnation, and End of History
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Slavic studies, and Modern literature
- Creator:
- Topoleski, Anthony
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844690 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15745
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- Keyword:
- environment, sustainability, climate change, disaster management, building materials, and disaster reconstruction
- Creator:
- Vidushi Dwivedi, MS Research Assistant, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University, William M. Miller, PhD Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Mike M. McMahon Strategic Partnerships Administrator, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University., Anita Van Breda Senior Director, Environment and Disaster Management World Wildlife Fund, Jennifer B. Dunn, PhD Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , Stephen H. Carr, PhD, P.E. Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, and Missaka Hettiarachchi PhD, CEng Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund
- Contributor:
- Jennifer Pepson-Elwood , Elham Ramyar, Vasantha Wakkumbura, and Megan McConnell
- Owner:
- Mike McMahon
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-11-22
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-0-578-31332-0 and DOI 10.21985/n2-139p-gw08
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- Description:
- Excel files containing data and data legend: File 1: Hormone data File 2: Sleep data File 3: Autonomic data
- Creator:
- Grimaldi, Daniela
- Owner:
- Daniela Grimaldi
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2021
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-10-27
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- haptics
- Creator:
- Roman Grigorii
- Owner:
- Roman Vasilievich Grigorii
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/16/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/16/2021
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- Keyword:
- Sexual Assault, Clery Act, Title IX, Inter-Rater Reliablity, Cohen's Kappa Coefficient, Cognitive Dissonance, Policy, and Statistical Analyses
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2021
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- Keyword:
- Fiction, Care Home, and Memory Loss
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2021
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2021
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- Keyword:
- James Baldwin and Major American Author
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/05/2021
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- Description:
- This thesis discussed how motifs of height and depth in Black literature highlight Black characters’ inability to form positive racial identities. The thesis uses three canonical pieces of Black literature, Passing, Native Son, and Plum Bun, to demonstrate that Black characters who try to reimagine White space are forced into...
- Keyword:
- literature
- Creator:
- Stovall, Jessica Lee
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/09/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/09/2021
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- Throughout the last two decades several scholars observed that present-day research into human genes rarely turns toward genes that had not already been extensively investigated in the past. Guided by hypotheses derived from studies of science and innovation, we present here a literature-wide data-driven meta-analysis to identify the specific scientific...
- Creator:
- Stoeger, Thomas
- Owner:
- Thomas Stoeger
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-12-16
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- abolition, critical race theory, civil rights, constitutional law, and rule of law
- Creator:
- Paul Gowder
- Owner:
- Paul Anthony Gowder
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/17/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2021
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- Description:
- This data was a part of a REDCap survey opened from 5/6/2020 to 7/7/2020. Potential participants with cerebral palsy and their families voluntarily responded to various questions about the motivators, barriers, and goals associated with the decision to participate in cerebral palsy research. Included in this work are the dataset...
- Creator:
- Sukal-Moulton, Theresa, Goyal, Vatsala, Hruby, Alex, Hill, Nayo, Joshi, Divya, Zvolanek, Kristina, Ingo, Carson, and Roth, Heidi
- Owner:
- Vatsala Goyal
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/23/2021
- Date Modified:
- 12/23/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-12-23
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- water insecurity, drinking water, perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs, and harm
- Creator:
- Joshua D. Miller and Sera L. Young
- Owner:
- Sera Young
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-07
- Resource Type:
- Software or Program Code
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- Description:
- Circadian rhythms — physiological, behavioral, and metabolic oscillations with an approximate 24-h period — are controlled by an evolutionarily conserved set of core clock genes operating at the transcriptional and protein level. Entrainable by Zeitgebers (external environmental stimuli such as light, temperature, and food) that modulate time-of-day specific functions, the...
- Keyword:
- Time-Series Analysis, Biostatistics, Topological Data Analysis, Gene Expression Analysis, Dynamical Systems, Computational Biology, Circadian Rhythms., Circadian Biology, and Differential Rhythm Detection
- Creator:
- Ness-Cohn, Elan
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-07
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The textbook proceeds with an introduction to theory and concept building, moves to an explanation of causal inference (how do we 'know' whether something is causal?), and then provides a quick introduction to data and hypothesis testing. Following that, each chapter is devoted to a particular research method used within...
- Keyword:
- textbook, open educational resources, and introduction to political science
- Subject:
- Quantitative research, Political science, and Open educational resources
- Creator:
- Clipperton, Jean
- Contributor:
- Ochoa, Erin, Ruan, Zhihang, Lee, John, Manzi, Pilar, Zimmerman, John, Kwon, Irene, Gubitz, Sam, Noor, Salih, and Weylandt, Max
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/24/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/17/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-05-9
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- Description:
- In the late Middle Ages, the Italian word fama had a wide semantic range that encompassed such vitally important topics as reputation, honor, community memory, and trustworthiness. In this dissertation, I examine how fama manifested within sodomy prosecutions in late medieval Italy and what insights such prosecutions can give into...
- Keyword:
- Middle Ages, Fama, Sexuality, Italy, Gender, and Renaissance
- Subject:
- Medieval history
- Creator:
- Noll-Syrigos, Kathleen Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15846 and etdadmin_upload_860406
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- Description:
- This project studies the formal experimentations with color in postwar cinema as a paradigm for exploring larger theoretical and political questions relating to postwar aesthetics. Borrowing from an understudied concept of Gilles Deleuze’s theory, “the color-image,” my first chapter shifts the conversation away from reading color as strictly symbolic or...
- Keyword:
- French cinema , Postcolonial theory, Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Godard, Gilles Deleuze, and Postwar cinema
- Subject:
- French literature
- Creator:
- Tasevska, Tamara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15812 and etdadmin_upload_854907
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- Description:
- Future large-scale quantum networks will likely require more efficient on-chip devices for quantum key distribution (QKD) systems that can exploit CMOS manufacturing techniques. QKD systems on chip have been produced in a number of material platforms including silicon, indium phosphide, and a range of hybrid structures. Advanced industrial silicon-electronics manufacturing...
- Keyword:
- thin-film lithium-niobate, integrated photonics, and quantum optics
- Subject:
- Optics, Quantum physics, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Elkus, Bradley Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863944 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15876
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- Description:
- Current technologies capable of establishing bioresorbable orthopedic fixation devices and stents have broad utility for biomedical applications to improve constructive tissue remodeling. Recent studies and investigations on bioresorbable conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics, and polymer substrates offer a promising opportunity to propel the existing non-degradable bioelectronic devices to the promising bioresorbable electronics,...
- Keyword:
- Soft materials, Bioresorbable electronics, Solid mechanics, Functional interfaces, Implantable electronics, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Bioengineering, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Quansan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/18/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824270 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15603
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- Description:
- Social engagement, or shared attention between a child and caregiver, is a critical process for language and social development. Although previous EEG studies have investigated child social processing in closely controlled, experimental studies, no study has examined the interactive, reciprocal process of naturalistic social engagement. In my first paper, we...
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Manning, Brittany L
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15820 and etdadmin_upload_855920
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates processes controlling the Ca isotope geochemistry (δ44/40Ca) of Icelandic samples, from an atomic to island-wide scale. These studies embody the range of applications for which the Ca isotope proxy can apply in surficial environments, and I offer novel δ44/40Ca data for Icelandic rivers, rocks, minerals, soil, and...
- Keyword:
- chemical weathering, basalt , Calcium isotopes, carbon cycle, Iceland, and zeolites
- Subject:
- Geochemistry, Geology, and Environmental geology
- Creator:
- Nelson, Claire
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_848961 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15786
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about people living with the ruins of an old city. It demonstrates that ruined cities can provide sources of cultural identity and community life, conditions that contribute to social revitalization in times of crisis. The case study for this dissertation examines the ancient Maya city of Ake,...
- Keyword:
- Community regeneration, Ancient Maya, Settlement regeneration, Ruins, Political collapse, and Yucatan
- Subject:
- Latin American history and Archaeology
- Creator:
- Rosado Ramirez, Roberto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15822 and etdadmin_upload_856308
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- Description:
- Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles are a class of highly abundant atmospheric constituents that represent a substantial fraction of carbon within the climate system. A subset of naturally-occurring SOA particles are formed through atmospheric oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), forming oxygenated products of lower volatility that can partition...
- Keyword:
- organosulfate, sulfate, aerosol, isoprene, IEPOX, and synthesis
- Subject:
- Organic chemistry, Atmospheric chemistry, and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Varelas, Jonathan Gregory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15797 and etdadmin_upload_851268
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students’ epistemic agency as they do science in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such learning...
- Keyword:
- Restructurations, Agent-based models, Constructionism, Computational Thinking, and Scientific inquiry
- Subject:
- Education, Educational technology, and Science education
- Creator:
- Dabholkar, Sugat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15865 and etdadmin_upload_863334
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- Description:
- The microtubule (MT) network and associated regulatory proteins play a critical role during viral infection from facilitating viral particle transport towards the nucleus upon entry to later mediating virion assembly and egress. Many of the precise mechanisms by which viruses commandeer the host MT network to propagate infection remain poorly...
- Keyword:
- TACC3, virus, microtubules, and +TIP
- Subject:
- Virology, Microbiology, and Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Furey, Colleen Patricia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856328 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15823
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- Description:
- Biological therapeutics have revolutionized the way we treat cancer due to their ability to target tumors discriminately, leaving healthy cells unaffected. However, our inability to tailor the structure of biologics may hamper their optimization for efficacy. This lack of programmability contributes to factors such as immunogenic responses, inability to penetrate...
- Keyword:
- Nanotechnology, Cancer therapy, Synthetic biology, Synthetic chemistry, Protein engineering, and Protein scaffolds
- Subject:
- Bioengineering, Chemistry, and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Kimmel, Blaise Russel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_852716 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15804
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- Description:
- Proprioception, or the sense of one’s body in space, provides critical feedback that the brain usesto generate controlled movements. When proprioceptive feedback is lost, people find it difficult to perform even basic motor tasks. Despite its importance, proprioceptive coding of single neurons in the cuneate nucleus (CN), the most peripheral...
- Subject:
- Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Versteeg, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_859788 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15841
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- Description:
- In memory overgeneralization, details from negatively-valenced episodic memories become excessively generalized to unrelated neutral situations. This is a key cognitive distortion associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stress promotes memory generalization, and this process likely relies on stress-induced changes in dorsal...
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Ren, Lynn Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_851720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15800
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- Description:
- Anthropogenic consumption of fossil fuels releases carbon into the Earth-atmosphere-ocean system at rates unmatched by geologic processes. Yet, some geologic time periods also show evidence of climate forcing related to rapid natural greenhouse gas emissions and can serve as tools to help understand the future trajectory of climate. Geologic events...
- Keyword:
- Ocean acidification, Climate change, Low-temperature Geochemistry, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, and Paleoceanography
- Subject:
- Paleoclimate science
- Creator:
- Kitch, Gabriella Dawn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_863458 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15871
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on identifying structure-property-performance relationships in supported nanoparticle catalysts, where an active catalyst material is supported on a high surface area substrate. Identifying these relationships in supported nanoparticle catalysts can be quite challenging, as the complex structure of these catalysts results in numerous potential sources for changes to...
- Keyword:
- Surfaces, Catalysis, Nanoparticles, Interfaces, Density Functional Theory, and Electron Microscopy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Mansley, Zachary Ryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15855 and etdadmin_upload_862543
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- Description:
- In modern electronics, thermal management becomes one of the most crucial factors in the determination of the performance, quality and lifetime of devices. Especially with the development of internet of things and the digitization of worldwide information, the need for storage of giant amount of data and processing with fast...
- Keyword:
- Free-standing materials, Anisotropic materials, Thermometry, and Thermal management
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Yan, Xueting
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856418 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15825
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- Description:
- Next generation cellular networks are expected to support a massive data traffic volume and satisfy a vast number of users that have latency-critical quality-of-service expectations. Towards serving this demand, it is envisaged that the interference management problem will be the main bottleneck due to the likeliness of a heavily interfering...
- Keyword:
- power control, deep Q-learning, reinforcement learning, actor critic learning, radio resource management, and Jakes fading model
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering, Computer science, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Nasir, Yasar Sinan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15788 and etdadmin_upload_849279
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- Description:
- Engineering design is a systematic process of identifying needs and their translation into functional systems. This is a cyclic process that alternates between the acquisition of data and the synthesis of said data to inform design decisions. Conventionally, data from physical experiments are used to explore the efficacy of alternative...
- Keyword:
- Uncertainty quantification, Design, Decision making, Machine learning, Data acquisition, and Data synthesis
- Subject:
- Design and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- van Beek, Anton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_861337 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15848
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- Description:
- The gender imbalance in computer science is getting worse, with computer science being the only Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field in which women’s representation has steadily declined throughout the past few decades. Rectifying this gender imbalance is an urgent need, both because of fundamental issues of equity and...
- Subject:
- Education
- Creator:
- Wu, Jue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_856574 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15826
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- Description:
- This dissertation starts with the question of what the global resurgence of authoritarianism means for the welfare states affected by it. The inadequacies of the dominant partisan and institutionalist paradigms within the welfare state literature suggest, however, that a new paradigm for understanding welfare state development is necessary to answer...
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Johnson, Kory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15874 and etdadmin_upload_863869
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- Description:
- Though they lived a century apart and wrote in starkly disparate historical, cultural, and literary contexts, Russian poets Aleksandr Pushkin and Vladimir Mayakovsky were both victims of the posthumous processes of bureaucratization and monumentalization at the hands of the Soviet regime. Their biographies, politics, and poetry were sanitized and manipulated...
- Keyword:
- Futurism, Russian Modernism, Modernism, Poetry, Communism, and Soviet Literature
- Subject:
- Slavic literature, Literature, and Slavic studies
- Creator:
- Trinks, Jasmine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_862480 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15854
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- Description:
- Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) combines the strength and directionality of covalent bonds with the reversibility of supramolecular interactions. The formation and stability of these bonds are typically regulated by parameters such as temperature, pH, concentration, catalyst loading and light. Light is an exceptionally powerful stimulus because it can be applied...
- Keyword:
- hydrazone, quinoline, dynamic covalent chemistry, boronic ester, internal catalysis, and photoswitch
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Barsoum, David
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_858355 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15836
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- Description:
- Stimulus generalization is a critical mechanism for facilitating behavioral flexibility. Generalization allows the brain to reduce computational demands that would otherwise be necessary to create unique representations for each and every encounter while allowing the ability to deal with the complexity of real-world situations. Stimulus generalization is a fundamental cognitive...
- Keyword:
- discrimination learning, olfactory generalization, peak shift, fMRI, and aversive outcomes
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Porter, Daria Boratyn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_777969 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15368
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- Description:
- With the rapid advancement of machine learning techniques (in particular deep neural networks), computer vision applications have shown great promises in a variety of domains for intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPSs), such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, and vision-based robotic systems. However, while many vision applications provide great on-paper performance, their...
- Keyword:
- Computer Vision and Cyber-physical Systems
- Subject:
- Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Lan, Shuyue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845074 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15754
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- Description:
- Crystalline and Framework materials make up a broad class of structures which are known for their precise and regular nature. Because these materials have predictable structures and compositions to their networks, they are widely used for several applications including electronics, optics, and catalysis. While these materials are of particular interest,...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Flanders, Nathan C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_849597 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15789
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- Description:
- This dissertation interrogates the quality of sincerity as it appears throughout John Locke’s work on religious toleration and Christian theology. Sincerity, and the framework it provides, offers a means to draw together his political and theological works, as well as to appreciate both his radical potentialities and conservative impulses. The...
- Keyword:
- Scripture , John Locke , and Religious toleration
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Brown , Julia Margaret
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_855043 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15813