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- This dissertation approaches J. M. Coetzee’s work through the lens of critical animal studies. Puzzling out the frequent appearances of animals in his work, numerous scholars have attempted to answer the following question: What is Coetzee writing about when he writes about animals? But while many have engaged with the...
- Keyword:
- Animal studies, Kafka, Allegory, and Coetzee
- Subject:
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Creator:
- Sonia H. Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation provides a study of local Black media development in Detroit in the decade following the 1967 Rebellion, as Detroit became a majority Black city. I argue that Black Detroiters not only produced documentaries that challenged local white discourse within what George Lipsitz terms “a Black spatial imaginary,†but...
- Keyword:
- film, history, race, urbanism, Detroit, and television
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Annie Laurie Sullivan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation and Dataset
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- Systems of colloids coated with high-information polymers are powerful tools for designing crystal lattice with tailorable properties or studying the fundamentals of crystallization. By changing the colloid-colloid interaction strength or colloid shape, different types of lattices can be assembled. In this thesis, I present novel coarse-grained models to describe high-information...
- Keyword:
- nanomaterials, molecular dynamics, DNA, and Colloidal crystallization
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Martin Girard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder that arises following the degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Patients experience a host of limiting motor symptoms such as rigidity, tremor, and a paucity of controlled movement generation. These symptoms often correspond with a predominance of abnormally...
- Keyword:
- autonomous activity, Parkinson's disease, basal ganglia, KATP channel, chemogenetics, and subthalamic nucleus
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Eileen McIver
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Image understanding is at the core of computer vision research,', 'which involves tasks such as object recognition, scene understanding, and image retrieval.', 'With surging number of image and text available in various sources,', 'there is great application need to exploit such large quantities of images with associated text,', 'build tools...
- Keyword:
- Scene understanding, Image tagging, Image understanding, Image retrieval, and Image recognition
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Yin Xia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The classroom environment, a child’s gateway to learning, seldom offers pristine listening conditions (Bradley and Sato, 2008). Hearing a teacher’s voice despite the scraping of chairs and the chattering of classmates requires that students effectively perceive speech in noise. As young children are more vulnerable to the detrimental effects of...
- Keyword:
- Electrophysiology, Childhood, Speech-in-noise perception, Auditory, and Development
- Subject:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Creator:
- Elaine Thompson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- ABSTRACT', 'Reinventing Television and Family Life, 1960-1990', 'Hannah Spaulding', 'In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the field of television changed. A series of new electronic devices that interfaced directly with TV technology—video cameras, home recorders, cable boxes, video calling systems—were introduced to the American public. These devices promised to radically...
- Keyword:
- Domesticity, Television, Technology, History, Gender, and Video
- Subject:
- Screen Cultures
- Creator:
- Hannah Alice Spaulding
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 2018-1The human visual system has a remarkable ability for understanding material properties on the basis of texture appearance, such as', 'telling whether the food is fresh, the fabric is soft, the soil is wet, or the skin is dry. Such visual judgments of material properties mostly rely on the perception...
- Keyword:
- gloss perception, bandlimited statistics, photometric transformation, color composition perception, and selective comparison
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Jing Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Ultrathin optical platform including two-dimensional materials and metasurfaces have emerged as potential candidates for novel nanophotonic applications. In this dissertation, I will present the possibility to achieve full active control of the electromagnetic waves with the platform in the flatland. We could achieve the amplitude control, which will be useful...
- Keyword:
- 2D Materials, Nanophotonics, Flatland Optics, Plasmonics, and Metasurfaces
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Zizhuo Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The use of polymeric membranes have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. From simple chip bags to million-dollar cockpits, these membranes find diverse applications in packaging, protective coating, electronic device, gas and liquid separation, and medicine. The 2-dimentional geometry of the membranes offered unique mechanical and interfacial properties that often...
- Keyword:
- water treatment, polyelectrolyte, structure-property relationship, block ionomer, large-strain deformation, and fracture mechanics
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Shawn H Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation