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- Keyword:
- experiment, collaboration, and dataset
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- mary.mcgrath@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/16/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The thesis contains all four chapters of my Ph.D. research on deep learning and text mining. The first chapter, "Temporal Topic Analysis with Endogenous and Exogenous Processes'', proposes a topic model which mines temporal economy-related documents with an exogenous economic indicator, and finds the relationship between document topics and the...
- Keyword:
- deep learning and text mining
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Baiyang Wang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The discovery and tailoring of new useful organic molecules for applications such as medicine and materials science is highly driven by meaningful developments in chemical methodology, and some of the most impactful advances have invoked catalysis to increase efficiency and specificity. N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have continuously occupied a prominent space...
- Keyword:
- aminoboronic acids, NHC, boration, borylation, N-Heterocyclic Carbene, and enantioselective catalysis
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Charles Benjamin Schwamb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Computational models greatly benefit metabolic engineering efforts by helping to elucidate experimental observations and predict engineering targets for improved cellular performance. Additionally, supplementing experimental efforts with computational modeling can reduce the loss of time and resources in the lab by narrowing down testing conditions. In optimal cases, computational models can...
- Keyword:
- Bioengineering
- Subject:
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Creator:
- Jennifer Lane Greene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis reports on the use of optical antennas, and more broadly, metal optics for the engineered collection and enhancement of infrared photodetectors. These ideas would be useful in enhancing at other wavelengths and other types of detectors, but this work is specifically focused on the Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector...
- Keyword:
- QWIP, Beam-Forming, and Antennas
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Robert Louis Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Assessment, Rehabilitation, Disorders of Consciousness, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Clinician-Reported Outcome Measure
- Creator:
- Theresa Pape
- Owner:
- Theresa L Bender Pape
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2019
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- Keyword:
- Disorders of Consciousness, Brain Injury, and Assessment
- Creator:
- Theresa Bender Pape
- Owner:
- Theresa L Bender Pape
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2019
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- Description:
- My dissertation explores the dynamics of Northeast Asia’s island disputes, specifically the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Korea and Japan and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China. I focus on three questions that are important for academic and policy purposes and are not well addressed by existing theories: 1) what explains...
- Keyword:
- Territorial conflict, China, Japan, Korea, Island disputes, and Northeast Asia
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Katrin Fraser Katz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation narrates the circulation and institutionalization of an emergent category of talk performance within the late-twentieth century US avant-garde through the career trajectories of three artists from disparate disciplinary backgrounds working in and around the 1970s: theatrical monologist Spalding Gray, poet David Antin, and dance artist and filmmaker Yvonne...
- Keyword:
- America, Spalding Gray, Yvonne Rainer, avant-garde, David Antin, and performance
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Ira S. Murfin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of the egg is to give rise to offspring in sexually reproducing organisms. Zinc thresholds became connected to egg quality from initial breakthrough discoveries in M. musculus which demonstrated that large-scale zinc fluxes occur during meiotic maturation, and these fluxes are required to maintain female egg viability. Numerous...
- Keyword:
- germline regulation, zinc flux, zinc, and oocyte maturation
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Adelita D. Mendoza
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of two papers united by a common element: they both study the behavior of heterogeneous agents across the business cycle. In Chapter 1, I consider: what is the link between the drop in consumer credit during the Great Recession and increased unemployment? I build a heterogeneous household...
- Keyword:
- unemployment, exit, recession, entry, productivity, and credit
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brian Boyd O'Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Following a stroke, precise, individuated control of single joints is often replaced by highly stereotyped patterns of multi-joint movement, due to a loss of independent joint control, which can negatively impact functional use of the paretic arm. Despite the debilitating nature of this impairment, the precise underlying neural mechanisms remain...
- Keyword:
- MR imaging, stroke, motor control, and brainstem
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Meriel Ann Owen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Agents of online platforms often have to make purchase decisions in the face the uncertainty of the true value of an item. Observing the other agents’ actions and/or reviews is one common method to learn about an item. However such observational learning can lead to an information cascade, in which...
- Keyword:
- Markov chain, Game Theory, Information cascades, Social Networks, and Bayesian Learning, Data Science
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Tho Ngoc Le
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- patchy colloid, algorithms, Monte Carlo simulation, molecular dynamics, dielectrics, and electrolyte
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Huanxin Wu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The reforms called for by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (National Research Council, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013) involve students using scientific and engineering practices to construct disciplinary knowledge with others. For this work to be meaningful, students need to understand what they were doing and how their actions...
- Keyword:
- modeling, epistemology, argumentation, and professional development,
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Abraham Sillan Lo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates a single-column model for Arctic energy balance in the limit as a smoothing parameter associated with ice-albedo feedback tends to zero. This limit is a common modeling approximation used in conceptual climate models, and we explore the implications of taking this limit on bifurcations associated with the...
- Keyword:
- climate tipping points, Arctic sea ice, nonsmooth dynamical system, Filippov, and ice-albedo feedback
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Kaitlin Hill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Porous metal structures exhibit numerous advantages over dense materials due to their high specific stiffness, strength, damping, energy absorption, and surface areas, making them suitable for applications ranging from actuators to medical implants. However, traditional foam manufacturing methods do not provide sufficient control of the foam micro-architectures, and the creation...
- Keyword:
- additive manufacturing, NiTi, porous metal, bone implant, Ni-Mn-Ga, and powder metallurgy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Shannon Lee Taylor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Gels are three-dimensional polymer networks capable of absorbing a large amount of solvent molecules subject to various external stimuli (pH, temperature, light, etc.). They exhibit a rich mechanical behavior and prominent nonlinearity owing to their high flexibility, stimuli-responsiveness and superabsorbency. More compelling are the intriguing morphologies and novel functionalities achieved...
- Keyword:
- contact, gel, fiber-reinforced hydrogels, mechanical instability, anisotropic contraction, and finite element method
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Shuangping Liu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The aim of this dissertation is to make sense of nearly a century and a half's worth of observations concerning skin based electroadhesion phenomena. While this is a noble goal in and of itself, further motivation of this work is drawn from fact that the electroadhesive effect is increasingly being...
- Keyword:
- frictio, haptics, electroadhesion, and bioimpedance
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Craig D. Shultz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Spinal cord injury occurs with a worldwide incidence of 13-33 cases per million per year, and more than 2.5 million patients worldwide suffer from spinal cord injury (SCI)-related disability (1, 2). Different methods have been attempted to promote axonal regeneration, including neurotrophin injection, hydrogel injection, olfactory ensheathing cells implantation and...
- Keyword:
- Therapeutics, Cord Injury, Fibrosis, and Nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Suji Jeong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This data was downloaded from the FBI site: http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/StatebyState.cfm and only minimally processed to make it more readable.
- Keyword:
- data science and us crime
- Creator:
- Julia Poncela-Casasnovas
- Owner:
- julia.poncela@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
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- Description:
- This paper examines conflictual relationships among British members of the Gold Coast administration. It adds to the literature that problematizes earlier notions of colonialism by highlighting tensions and contradictions inherent in colonial governance structures. This paper argues that at its inception, the Gold Coast colonial administration had deep cracks as...
- Keyword:
- pas
- Creator:
- Kofi Takyi Asante
- Contributor:
- LaRay Denzer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This working paper focuses on the themes, authors, and changing modes of production of 152 booklets published (or purchased) in Nigeria relating to marriage. The author obtained them from bookshops mainly in Ibadan and Lagos, from church bookstores in Ado-Ekiti and Kabba, but also from motor parks in Lokoja, Kaduna,...
- Keyword:
- pas
- Subject:
- pas
- Creator:
- Elisha P. Renne
- Contributor:
- LaRay Denzer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/05/2019
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Michael Lesy talks about his upcoming book "Murder City". At the time of this recording he was Professor of Literary Journalism, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
- Keyword:
- homicide in chicago
- Creator:
- Leigh Bienen and Michael Lesy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/06/2019
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Keyword:
- Assessment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Disorders of Consciousness, and Neurobehavioral Function
- Creator:
- Theresa Pape
- Owner:
- Theresa L Bender Pape
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2019
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- Keyword:
- DOCS-23, Traumatic Brain Injury, Disorders of Consciousness, and Neurobehavioral Function
- Creator:
- Theresa Pape
- Owner:
- Theresa L Bender Pape
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2019
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- Description:
- MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT: Socially relevant situations that involve strategic interactions are widespread among animals and humans alike. To study these situations, theoretical and experimental research has adopted a game theoretical perspective, generating valuable insights about human behavior. However, most of the results reported so far have been obtained from a population...
- Keyword:
- social dilemmas, data science, game theory, social experiment, and k-means clustering algorithm
- Creator:
- Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, Mario Gutiérrez-Roig, Angel Sánchez, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, Julian Vicens, Josep Perelló, Yamir Moreno, and Jordi Duch
- Owner:
- julia.poncela@northwestern.edu
- Publisher:
- Science Advances
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT: The analysis of citations to scientific publications has become a tool in the evaluation of a researcher’s work, especially due to an ever-increasing production volume. Despite its acknowledged shortcomings and the ongoing debate on their meaning, citations are still primarily viewed as endorsements and as indicators of the...
- Keyword:
- science of science, PLOS journals, data visualization, data science, Web of Science, and citation patterns
- Creator:
- Julia Poncela-Casasnovas: julia.poncela@northwestern.edu, Luis A Nunes Amaral: amaral@northwestern.edu , Martin Gerlach: martin.gerlach@northwestern.edu , and Nathan Aguirre: siplacet@gmail.com
- Owner:
- julia.poncela@northwestern.edu
- Publisher:
- Nature Human Behaviour,
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-29
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The anode and cathode are main components in a battery system. In this dissertation, Group IV inter-metallics and LiMn2O4 are studied as anode and cathode materials for Li-ion batteries respectively. Preliminary investigation of a multi-valent cathode material for next generation batteries is also introduced. Group IV inter-metallics electrochemically alloy with...
- Keyword:
- Multi-valent, Anode, X-ray, Cathode, LiMn2O4, and Germanium
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Xiao Chen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The studies presented in this dissertation combine radiogenic and stable strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr and 88/86Sr, respectively), radiogenic and stable carbon isotope ratios (Δ14C and 13C, respectively), and bulk ion geochemistry to trace the sources and cycling of C in three glaciated environments (New Zealand, Iceland, and Greenland). A primary...
- Keyword:
- Geochemistry
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Margaret Unterman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- One seismologist’s noise is another seismologist’s signal. What was once disregarded is now routinely processed as dense arrays of broadband seismometers continuously record small amplitude Earth motions, presenting an immense wealth of data. This dissertation presents three projects where ambient seismic noise, generated by ocean wave interactions with the solid...
- Keyword:
- Tomography, Interferometry, and Seismology
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- Michael Witek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Greater interest in self-directed professions, like entrepreneurship, have led to a growth in informal workplace communities and social technologies that support new ways of working. However, we have little understanding of how these socio-technical environments support opportunities for professional skill development. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how...
- Keyword:
- Makerspaces, Crowdfunding, Online learning, Online communities, Social computing, and Human-Computer Interaction
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Julie Hui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Understanding electrical circuits can be difficult for novices of all ages (Grotzer & Sudbury, 2000; Osborne, 1983; Shipstone, 1984; Tarciso Borges, 1999). Research shows that novices tend to have inadequate understandings of what happens at the level of atoms and electrons, leading to difficulty predicting the outcomes of electrical circuits...
- Keyword:
- Computer Science
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Elham Beheshti Zavareh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) is a useful technique for study of biological samples. XFM was used to map and quantify endogenous biological elements as well as exogenous materials in biological samples, such as the distribution of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles are produced for many different purposes, including development...
- Keyword:
- Xray Fluorescence Microscopy, Radiation Oncology, Nanotechnology, and Cancer Nanotechnology
- Subject:
- X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) is a useful technique for study of biological samples. XFM was used to map and quantify endogenous biological elements as well as exogenous materials in biological samples, such as the distribution of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles are produced for many different purposes, including development of therapeutic and diagnostic particles for cancer detection and treatment, drug delivery, and induction of DNA breaks. Delivery of such nanoparticles can be targeted to specific cells and subcellular structures. In this work, we develop two novel approaches to stain TiO2 nanoparticles for optical microscopy and to confirm that staining by XFM. The first approach utilizes fluorescent biotin and fluorescent streptavidin to label the nanoparticles before and after cellular uptake; the second approach is based on the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition, the so-called CLICK chemistry, for labeling of azide conjugated TiO2 nanoparticles with “clickable” dyes such as alkyne Alexa Fluor dyes with a high fluorescent yield. To confirm that the optical fluorescence signals of nanoparticles stained in situ match the distribution of the Ti element, we used high resolution synchrotron X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy (XFM) using the Bionanoprobe instrument at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Titanium-specific X-ray fluorescence showed excellent overlap with the location of Alexa Fluor optical fluorescence detected by confocal microscopy. In this work XFM was also used to investigate native elemental differences between two different types of head and neck cancer, one associated with human papilloma virus infection, the other virus free. Future work may see a cross between these themes, for example, exploration of TiO2 nanoparticles as anticancer treatment for these two different types of head and neck cancer
- Creator:
- Koshonna Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Kezban Yagci Sokat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Totipotent cells have the highest developmental potential and can only be created by nuclear transfer into oocytes. Identities of maternal factors that can induce this reprogramming remain a mystery. In this report, we demonstrate induction of totipotency on mouse embryonic stem cells by introducing six factors, Hist1h2aa, H3f3b, H1foo, p-Npm2,...
- Keyword:
- Pluripotent, Regenerative, Stem Cells, Totipotent, Embryonic, and Reprogramming
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Sanders Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Wind pollination has evolved from animal pollination at least 65 times in flowering plants, but the reverse transition is rare. Wind pollination is usually accompanied by the loss of traits that attract pollinators, and re-evolving them may be difficult. This dissertation examines this rare transition using Artocarpus (ca. 70 spp.,...
- Keyword:
- underutilized crops, Pollination, Phylogenetics, tropical biology, Chemical ecology, and Moraceae
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Elliot M. Gardner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- What follows is a strictly post-genomic dissertation. Over the past five years, I have strived to leave the nucleus behind, and even the endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus. The human genome was sequenced over 15 years before the submission of this document, and the world changed somewhat less than anticipated—besides...
- Keyword:
- Top-Down Proteomics, Immunology, Proteoforms, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, and Transplantation
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Tinothy Toby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops a framework to approach musical hybridity by considering style and genre interactions as an analytical layer of combinations of identities. It engages with the structural, contextual, and perceptual aspects of music by mixing perspectives from music studies with postcolonial studies, situated cognition, and genre studies. Hybridity is...
- Keyword:
- Style and Genre, Mixture, Hybridity, Music Theory, and Analysis
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Bruno Moschini Alcalde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many stroke survivors are left with residual movement impairments. Treating these impairments has proven difficult, because it is often unclear which mechanisms drive movement impairment. While the exact mechanisms are still uncertain, at present, evidence suggests that neuromuscular function is disrupted in two key domains following stroke: muscle biomechanics, and...
- Keyword:
- Movement Disorders, Motor Neurons, Stroke, Muscle, and Shear wave elastography
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Lai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Environmental estimation, Decentralized algorithms, Distributed algorithms, Environmental monitoring, and Swarm Robotics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Matthew L. Elwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Metabolic conditions affect the developmental tempo of most animal species. Consequently, developmental gene regulatory networks (GRNs) must faithfully adjust their dynamics to a variable time scale. We find evidence that weak repressors of gene expression provide the necessary coupling between GRN output and cellular metabolism. Using a mathematical model that...
- Keyword:
- Gene Expression, Development, Metabolism, and Gene Regulation
- Subject:
- Developmental Biology
- Creator:
- Amaral Lab, Bagheri Lab, and Carthew Lab
- Owner:
- sebastianbernasek2014@u.northwestern.edu
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-24
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- Description:
- In the past few years, educators have been pushing for an integration of the arts into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning to promote innovation and creativity in these fields. The present study explores the relation between creativity and STEM learning among young children in digital and non-digital contexts,...
- Keyword:
- csht, Creativity , Play, communication, Young Children , STEM, Preschoolers, Learning, and Tablets
- Creator:
- Allyson Snyder
- Owner:
- allysonsnyder2020@u.northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2019
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- Description:
- The expanding use of nanomaterials in consumer products challenges scientists to understand the impact of these materials before their inevitable release into the environment. In the same way that the widespread use of DDT and asbestos has caused unforeseen negative impacts on both the environment and on human health, the...
- Keyword:
- Nanomaterials, Sum Frequency Scattering, Sum Frequency Generation, Nonlinear Optics, and Nano-Biointerface
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Laura Olenick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Psychosocial stress is part of everyday life, and while ubiquitous, stress plays a huge role disease development and treatment. Though the stressor’s intensity, predictability, and frequency (acute vs chronic) are important determinants of disease development, interactions with one’s genetic and epigenetic make-up also play a causal role. Major Depressive Disorder...
- Keyword:
- HCN, coping, Hyperpolarization activated current, mice, gastrointestinal motilit, and stress
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Daniel W. Fisher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many species have lost their natural habitat due to anthropogenic land use change. Ecologists are increasingly looking at habitat in cities to bolster efforts to conserve biodiversity. Green roofs are examples of urban habitats that are becoming more common globally. Green roofs can provide resources to support life in an...
- Keyword:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Subject:
- Plant Biology and Conversation
- Creator:
- Kelly Ksiazek Mikenas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Bcl-2 family is considered the guardian of the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. While there are numerous endogenous Bcl-2 antagonists that share similar homology, structure, topology, and expression pattern, only the loss of Bim in mice is sufficient to lead to the development of a systemic autoimmunity. Even loss of both...
- Keyword:
- Apoptosis
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- FuNien Tsai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- sonnets, john donne, shakespeare, early modern literature, and venus and adonis
- Creator:
- Megan Beach
- Owner:
- meb941
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2019
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- Description:
- Of the thousands of planetary candidates discovered by the Kepler mission, roughly a third are in known multiple transiting-planet systems. High-multiplicity Kepler systems (referred to as Kepler Multis) are often tightly packed and may be on the verge of instability. Many systems of this type could have experienced past instabilities,...
- Keyword:
- dynamical evolution and stability, hydrodynamics, planets and satellites, and gaseous planets
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Jason Hwang
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most lubricants contain a series of additives that reduce friction and wear, and protect contacting surfaces. The design of these additives must be modernized to meet the challenges involved with high operating temperatures, extreme environmental conditions, and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. This research demonstrates three novel lubricant additive strategies that...
- Keyword:
- Tribology, Additives, Lubrication, Wear, and Friction
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Blake Johnson
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system delivers effector proteins directly into target cells, allowing the bacterium to modulate host cell functions. ExoU is the most cytotoxic of the known effector proteins and has been associated with more severe infections in humans. Previous studies have shown that ExoU is a...
- Keyword:
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, oligomerization, and ExoU
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Angelica Zhang
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Creator:
- Gina Petersen, Michael Perry, Scott Garton, and Michelle Guittar
- Owner:
- gmp571
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
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- Description:
- In the near future, self-driving or driverless vehicles will operate without human control, enabling passengers to use their time in new ways. This opens up avenues for designing new interactions and experiences for individuals or groups traveling in an automobile. For that scenario, automobile manufacturers propose developing bigger and better...
- Keyword:
- self-driving cars
- Subject:
- Autonomous vehicles and Computer science
- Creator:
- Amartya Banerjee
- Owner:
- cpd3149
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Some five years ago, during the first year of my assistantship at the Music Academy in Katowice, I required students to analyse some of Penderecki's early, so-called "sonoristic" pieces. The outcome of that assignment proved unsatisfactory, however, because the students tended to describe Penderecki's pieces as chaotic assemblages of sound...
- Keyword:
- sonorism and poland
- Subject:
- Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933- and Polish people--Music
- Creator:
- Danuta Mirka
- Owner:
- cpd3149
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/17/2019
- Date Created:
- 1997
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The promise of next-generation electronics, which combines features such as mechanical flexibility, optical transparency, and relatively low-cost, has stimulated tremendous research efforts during the past few years. As perhaps the most fundamental component of an electronic circuit, the design and optimization of the thin film transistor (TFT) is of great...
- Keyword:
- Dielectrics, Characterization, Thin Film, X-ray, and Metal Oxides
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Li Zeng
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In vivo, substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) dopaminergic neurons exhibit three spiking patterns – irregular, regular, and bursting. These distinct modes of activity are thought to underlie the different roles that dopamine (DA) plays in target structures within the basal ganglia. In particular, burst spiking in SNc DA neurons is...
- Keyword:
- substantia nigra pars compacta, dopamine, burst firing, glutamate, and pedunculopontine nucleus
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Daniel James Galtieri
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In his Nobel lecture Herbert Kroemer famously stated that “The interface is the device”. While he made this statement in the context of semiconducting heterostructures, it has proven to be just as relevant for more complex materials, such as the transition metal oxides. In particular, the 2-D conducting gas that...
- Keyword:
- Electrical Transport, Strongly Correlated Electrons, Superconductivity, Electrical Anisotropy, Low Temperature Physics, and Complex Oxides
- Subject:
- Applied Physics
- Creator:
- Samuel K. Davis
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- My research interests, which span organic, inorganic, physical and biochemistry, have focused broadly on photo-, magneto- and redox-active molecules, especially those with potential applications in organic photovoltaics, spintronics and electronics. My research under the joint supervision of Professor Wasielewski and Professor Fraser Stoddart has concentrated upon understanding electronic and magnetic...
- Keyword:
- Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Yilei Wu
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores a form of performance I call “ototheatre,” which is a mobile and participatory audience experience executed with portable sound technology. Ototheatre is an emergent artistic form that sits at a convergence of contemporary technologies and audience consumption habits. Case studies, including smartphone applications and new theatrical works...
- Keyword:
- mobile performance, audience participation, soundwalk, immersive theatre, augmented reality, and audio theatre
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Lauren Rachele Beck
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation uses several interrelated methods derived from corpus linguistics, statistics, and machine learning to infer a number of historically significant voice-leading schemas in a corpus of eighteenth-century Neapolitan solfeggi (exercises for voice with bass accompaniment). The goal of this work is to gain insights not only into the characteristics...
- Keyword:
- Temporal regularity, Schema theory, Machine learning, Structure mapping theory, Music cognition, and Galant style
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- James Symons
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I introduce a new statistical test for identifying prejudice from empirical data. In the second chapter, I (joint with James Schummer) consider the revenue maximization problem for a two-sided, one-to-one matching platform. In the third chapter, I...
- Keyword:
- economics of discrimination, two-sided markets, test for prejudice, matching, and media bias
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Phillip Louis Marx
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- substance use, same-sex couples, dyadic, depression, and stress
- Creator:
- Brian Mustanski
- Contributor:
- Christina Dyar, Michael E. Newcomb, Brian A. Feinstein, Elizabeth McConnell, and Brian Mustanski
- Owner:
- krb529
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/15/2019
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- Description:
- These files include source datasets for the article "Multipartite stabilization of the C. beijerincki pfl ZTP aptamer disfavors terminator hairpin folding by gating strand invasion"
- Keyword:
- Cotranscriptional SHAPE-Seq, RNA Folding, Riboswitch, ZTP Riboswitch, and Transcription
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Eric J. Strobel
- Contributor:
- Katherine E. Berman, Paul D. Carlson, Luyi Cheng, and Julius B. Lucks
- Depositor:
- eric.strobel@northwestern.edu
- Owner:
- eric.strobel@northwestern.edu
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-15
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- Certain inducible genes show faster reactivation if they were recently expressed. This epigenetic phenomenon is called transcriptional memory and is inherited for several generations after the first round of induction. During this phase, genes show several conserved molecular features that are essential for faster reactivation: peripheral localization of the gene,...
- Keyword:
- Genome organization, Evolution, Epigenetic memory, Adaptive fitness, GAL genes, and Gene regulation
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Varun Sood
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The electronic spin state (S) of metal ions is fundamental to the performance of magnets, protein cofactors, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. The ability to manipulate the spin state of transition metals allows for the development of advanced materials with emergent properties. This following chapters will introduce two...
- Keyword:
- spin state, Double Exchange, Magnetism, MRI, Spin Crossover, and Iron
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alexandra I. Gaudette
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Optical interferometry is a powerful technique which has been widely utilized for well over a century in making the world’s most precise measurements. By measuring how the interference between two waves is affected by a physical process, one can deduce the magnitude of this process. Because the wavelength of a...
- Keyword:
- Optics, Dispersion, Metrology, Interferometry, and Lasers
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Joshua Yablon
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Electromagnetic metamaterials composed of colloidally synthesized plasmonic metal nanoparticles offer new opportunities to probe light-matter interactions. The properties of these structures largely depend on the spatial arrangement of nanoparticles within them. Therefore, new assembly strategies that afford a high level of structural control are expected to enable a broad range...
- Keyword:
- DNA-mediated assembly, plasmonic nanoparticles, multicomponent nanoparticle architectures, electromagnetic metamaterials, and reconfigurable metamaterials
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Qingyuan Lin
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Small hydrocarbons and their oxygenated derivatives are critical to atmospheric organic aerosol formation and growth. Secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) constitute a significant portion of total atmospheric organic aerosols, and are often generated through the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as isoprene, -pinene, and -caryophyllene. Interfaces of SOA...
- Keyword:
- computation, hydrocarbons, orientations, nonlinear optics, and aerosol
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hilary Marie Chase
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While synthesis and transformation processes to produce monodisperse nanoparticles are empirically well-developed, the pathways for these reactions as well as the exact role of synthetic agents and binding characteristics of surface moieties remain poorly understood. This lack of understanding is primarily due to the paucity of information about nanoparticle structural...
- Keyword:
- XAFS, in-situ, Galvanic exchange, nanocage, nanorods, and CTAB
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Liane Michelle Moreau
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation looks at the consequences of three different government regulatory policies---the nondistribution constraint (which prohibits managers of nonprofit organizations from distributing profits generated by the nonprofit organization to themselves), the 100/0, 85/15, and 90/10 rules (which restrict the fraction of revenue for-profit colleges and universities can receive from Title...
- Keyword:
- Higher Education, Prohibition, Industrial Organization, and Nonprofit Organizations
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brent Travis Howe
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Technology has advanced rapidly, especially in the twenty-first century, influencing our day-to-day life on unprecedented levels. Most such advances in technology are closely linked to, and often driven by, the discovery and design of new materials. It follows that the discovery of new materials can not only improve existing technologies...
- Keyword:
- Density Functional Theory, Batteries, Energy Materials, Materials Discovery, and Electrochemistry
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Soo Kim
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Contained in the following dissertation are detailed investigations regarding the thermodynamics of small molecule activation by metalloporphyrin complexes isolated within metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Chapter 1 provides a description of the role metalloporphyrin complexes play in biological systems and the challenges associated with studying small molecule activation by metalloporphryin sites in...
- Keyword:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Audrey Theresa Gallagher
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As neuroscience seeks to understand larger, more complicated systems and behaviors, we will require neural recording techniques that can monitor the activity of neurons across the whole brain. The unparalleled data-storage capabilities of DNA, combined with fast, genetically encodable DNA polymerase-based sensors, would allow for "ticker tape"-like recordings of neurons...
- Keyword:
- Next-generation sequencing, Brain activity mapping, Dynamic Time Warping, DNA Polymerase, and Molecular recording
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Thaddeus Rudas Cybulski
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The work presented in this dissertation examines the interplay between electron transfer reactions and electron spin in photoactive organic molecules. Organic compounds that undergo electron transfer reactions after absorbing light are important in natural photosynthesis, photobiology, and synthetic photovoltaics. These electron transfer reactions depend on the spin states of the...
- Keyword:
- EPR, spin chemistry, photochemistry, electron transfer, spectroscopy, and radical pair
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Noah Elliott Horwitz
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Microkinetic modeling is a powerful tool for creating dynamic and quantitative descriptions of complex systems. These detailed mechanistic models compliment experimental techniques and provide an ability to achieve deeper insights into chemical processes where numerous intermediates are highly reactive and difficult to quantify in the laboratory. This thesis discusses the...
- Keyword:
- ethyl linoleate, oil-based paint, microkinetic modeling, autoxidation, and volatiles
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Lindsay Oakley
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans possess the ability to infer and track mental states, which allows for successful interaction in the social world. The collection of processes and representations that makes this possible is referred to as a theory-of-mind (ToM). A large body of work has examined how these abilities develop from infancy to...
- Keyword:
- learning, theory of mind, analogical reasoning, cognitive development, comparison, and social cognition
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christian Hosos
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ions dissolved in solution are known to interact in remarkable ways with charged Langmuir monolayers. The organic monolayer can be used as a molecular template for ordered nucleation of inorganic crystals (biomineralization) and functional nanoparticles. However, the clear majority of experiments demonstrating these behaviors have been performed with divalent ions....
- Keyword:
- John Ketterson
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Mitchell Miller
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The goal of science education is to prepare students to make decisions about the complicated socioscientific issues that are an inescapable part of modern life, from personal medical decisions to evaluating a political candidate's environmental platform. We cannot expect adults to maintain a deep conceptual understanding of the current state...
- Keyword:
- science education, assessment, media literacy, epistemology, and science journalism
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences
- Creator:
- Brandy Liane Evans Buckingham
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Large projection neurons of the cerebellar nuclei (CbN cells), whose activity generates movement, are inhibited by Purkinje cells and excited by mossy fibers. The high convergence, firing rates, and strength of Purkinje inputs predict powerful suppression of CbN cell spiking, raising the question of what activity patterns favor excitation over...
- Keyword:
- temporal coding, Purkinje cell, dynamic clamp, cerebellum, deep cerebellar nuclei, and rate coding
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- Creator:
- Yeechan Wu
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores how the environment shapes energy expenditure and cardio-metabolic disease risk by investigating multiple timescales of adaptation to cold stress among the Yakut, an indigenous circumpolar population. This study pursues three main objectives. First, the adaptive and health significance of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is explored by examining...
- Keyword:
- Anthropology
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Creator:
- Stephanie B Levy
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Bacterial biofilms are aggregates of cells that adhere to nearly any solid-fluid interface. While many have harmful effects, such as industrial damage and nosocomial infections, certain biofilm species are now generating renewable energy as the fundamental components of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). In an MFC, bacteria consume organic waste and,...
- Keyword:
- biharmonic
- Subject:
- Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Creator:
- Jared Allen Hicks
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Thin film oxidation is investigated using two modeling techniques in the interest of better understanding the roles of space charge and non-equilibrium effects. An electrochemical phase-field model of an oxide-metal interface is formulated in one dimension and studied at equilibrium and during growth. An analogous sharp interface model is developed...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Quentin Sherman
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Algorithmic trading (AT) has grown dramatically in recent years and now makes up over half of all trades and orders in the market. I investigate whether and how AT affects voluntary disclosure by managers. I hypothesize that AT’s differential ability to process information and its speed of trading affects how...
- Keyword:
- Market microstructure, Capital markets, Algorithmic trading, and Voluntary disclosure
- Subject:
- Accounting Information and Management
- Creator:
- Andrew P. Stephan
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans have a remarkable ability to walk on a variety of surfaces. Compliant, uneven, or even slippery surfaces present little challenge to most people, yet are hazardous to individuals with locomotor impairments and even to bipedal robotic systems designed to mimic what we understand about human locomotion. Our ability to...
- Keyword:
- gait, slippery surfaces, ankle impedance, prosthetic limbs, and electromyography
- Subject:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Creator:
- Mariah Weaver Whitmore
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The development of organic photovoltaic devices benefits from understanding the fundamental processes underlying charge generation in thin films of organic semiconductors. This dissertation exploits model systems of π-stacked chromophores such as perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) (PDI) and 3,6-bis(aryl)diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) to study these processes using ultrafast electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. In particular, the characterization...
- Keyword:
- singlet fission, vibrational spectroscopy, diketopyrrolopyrrole, transient absorption spectroscopy, and excimers
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Catherine McKay Mauck
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work is a collection of articles featuring applications of operations research primarily on solid organ transplantation. At the time of writing, 111,434 Americans were waiting for a liver or kidney transplant. Only 26,901 transplants were performed last year – a consequence of the scarcity of organ donors and the...
- Keyword:
- medical decision making, scale heterogeneity, organ alllocation, and geographic disparities
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Vikram Kilambi
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- When granular materials with different properties (size, shape, density, etc.) flow, they tend to segregate. This research addresses a specific form of segregation (axial segregation) that occurs when size bidisperse granular mixtures flow inside a rotating cylindrical tumbler. Axial segregation is the formation of alternating bands of different particle species...
- Keyword:
- Particle Physics
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Darius B. Wheeler
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Penelopian Figures: Narratives of Work and Resistance in American Literature, 1840-1900” examines literary representations of workers who engage in covert opposition to their circumstances. In chapters on The Lowell Offering textile magazine, Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, Louisa May Alcott’s “How I Went Out to Service” and...
- Keyword:
- Penelope, textile labor, tactics, gender, and workers
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Kara Arlene Johnson
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation describes the fundamental studies of photoinduced charge-carrier transfer from colloidal metal chalcogenide quantum dots (QDs) to surface-adsorbed molecular redox partners. In addition, we also present the use of visible-light absorbing QDs in photocatalytic applications. CdS QDs are used as photocatalysts in a C-C coupling reaction, in which no...
- Keyword:
- Carrier Dynamics, Photocatalysis, Quantum Dots, and Electron Transfer
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Kedy Edme
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This work reports studies on the physical properties of collections of nanosheets. First, the configurations of graphene oxide sheets in solution are studied. Polarized optical microscopy reveals quickly and decisively that sheets remain flat and form lyotropic liquid crystals over a wide range of solvent conditions. When solvent conditions are...
- Keyword:
- ionic conductivity, graphene oxide, crumpling, exfoliated nanosheets, and nanofluidics
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Andrew Robert Koltonow
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In order to make informed policy recommendations, development research faces two broad challenges: first, to identify and estimate the effects of interventions where they have occurred, and second to build and test theories about the effects that a related intervention would be hypothesized to exert in a different context. I...
- Keyword:
- casual inferences, buffett, development research, and policy-oriented
- Creator:
- Andre Nickow
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 15-001
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- Description:
- This paper examines the relationship between a party'’'s descriptive representation of women and its ideological proximity to female and male voters. I find that male and female voters are both objectively closer to parties with more females in their delegations. However, males are more likely to subjectively assess parties with...
- Keyword:
- buffett, women, and political
- Creator:
- Georgia Kernell
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 12-001
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- Description:
- In this paper, Morgan and Orloff survey the contemporary study of states in the social sciences. They begin by tracing the history of scholarship on the state. The authors identify six main clusters of research on states that emerged through the effort to “bring the state back into” history and...
- Keyword:
- hands, state, and buffett
- Creator:
- Ann Shola Orloff and Kimberly J. Morgan
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 14-001
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- Description:
- This Handbook provides resources that help explain and contextualize the intersecting crises that destabilized Mali in 2012-2013. These crises included a rebellion by Tuareg separatists, a coup by junior officers, and violence carried out by Muslim militants. In addition to an overview of the crisis, the Handbook contains historical timelines,...
- Keyword:
- mali, buffett, and crisis
- Creator:
- Andrew Lebovich and Alexander Thurston
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 13-001
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- Description:
- This is the introductory chapter of my forthcoming book with the same title. The three primary objectives of this book are to reveal the paradigm shift of the contemporary international judiciary, conceptualize how new–style international courts (ICs) contribute to international politics, and normalize our understanding foremost as courts, and second...
- Keyword:
- buffett, new terrain, courts, and law
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 13-001
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- Description:
- In this paper, I present two distinct approaches to migrant entrepreneurship. I conducted an ethnography of two Ghanaian migrant businesses, one of which draws on the Ghanaian community, and the other which distances itself from it. I show that our current understanding of social capital romanticises the notion of community,...
- Keyword:
- buffett and conceptions
- Creator:
- Kofi Takyi Asante
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 13-002
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- Description:
- To analyze institutional dynamics, it is first necessary to determine when change has occurred, when not, and the nature and magnitude of change. If social institutions are defined in terms of rules, then a change of rules forms the core of institutional change. A number of complications arise from the...
- Keyword:
- change, buffett, and institutional dynamics
- Creator:
- Bruce Carruthers
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 12-004
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- Description:
- What are the origins of race-based affirmative action in college admissions? With only a few exceptions, there remain few evidence-based accounts of when and why such programs emerged among selective institutions of higher education; how heavily they weighed racial considerations; and how exactly race was taken into account. This paper...
- Keyword:
- open door and buffett
- Creator:
- Lisa Stulberg, Fiona Greenland, and Anthony Chen
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- 12-003
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- Description:
- In order to understand the role of international courts (ICs) in the international legal system, this chapter examines 25 permanent international courts by analyzing four roles that states have delegated to courts: enforcement, administrative review, constitutional review, and dispute settlement. The chapter finds that ICs can become not only agents...
- Keyword:
- international courts and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 12-002
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- Description:
- This paper explores the link between the public policy and the survival strategies of a hybrid political regime. Using the case of higher education in Russia, I show how the Russian state elites use the policy tools widespread in Western democracies to achieve domestic political goals. Introduction of quasi-market mechanisms...
- Keyword:
- global trends, buffett, and reforms
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- scj880
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Identifier:
- 12-001