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- This dissertation explores topics in information economics. A particular focus in this dissertation is how competition affects incentives for information acquisition and information sharing between competitors. The first chapter studies a principal-agent setting where two principals compete for the services of one agent. The second chapter studies how competition in...
- Keyword:
- Economic theory
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Rafayal Ahmed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- DOI
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- Keyword:
- Choices, Gait, and Energy
- Creator:
- Stephen Antos
- Owner:
- Stephen Antos
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/20/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/20/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N29B7D
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- Description:
- Advances in biosensor engineering have enabled the design of programmable molecular systems to detect a range of pathogens, nucleic acids, and chemicals. Here, we engineer and field-test a biosensor for fluoride, a major groundwater contaminant of global concern. The sensor consists of a cell-free system containing a DNA template that...
- Keyword:
- Fluoride, Diagnostic, Cell-Free, Riboswitch, and Synthetic Biology
- Subject:
- Diagnostics and Synthetic Biology
- Creator:
- Matthew S. Verosloff, Michael C. Jewett, Julius B. Lucks, Adam D. Silverman, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane, and Walter Thavarajah
- Contributor:
- This work was supported by the Air Force Research Laboratory Center of Excellence for Advanced Bioprogrammable Nanomaterials (C-ABN) Grant FA8650-15-2-5518 (to M.C.J. and J.B.L), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (to M.C.J.), an NSF CAREER Award (1452441 to J.B.L.), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Program (to M.C.J. and J.B.L.). A.D.S. was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32GM008449) through Northwestern University’s Biotechnology Training Program.
- Owner:
- Julius Beau Lucks
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-06-04
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N2RJ64
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- Description:
- Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels are expressed in the heart and central nervous system where they regulate membrane excitability. Recently, inhibiting HCN channels in the hippocampus has been identified as a possible therapeutic intervention for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). However, based on the high expression level of...
- Keyword:
- Depression, HCN, OPC, Oligodendrocyte, and TRIP8b
- Subject:
- Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Kyle Andrew Lyman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/17/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/17/2019
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.21985/N2W781
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- Keyword:
- Cotranscriptional SHAPE-Seq, RNA folding, ZTP Riboswitch, Transcription, and Riboswitch
- Creator:
- Eric J. Strobel
- Owner:
- Eric Strobel
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/10/2019
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- Description:
- In addition to citing the work, the authors request that permission is sought before editing or using the content of the video.
- Keyword:
- PrEP, Ethics, Consent, HIV, and Adolescent
- Creator:
- Leah Ibrahim Puri, Celia B. Fisher, Kathryn Macapagal, and Brian Mustanski
- Contributor:
- Kai Korpak and Maggie Matson
- Owner:
- Emily Bettin
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/06/2019
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Keyword:
- Measure, Ethics, Consent, HIV, and Adolescent
- Creator:
- Leah Ibrahim Puri, Celia B. Fisher, Kathryn Macapagal, and Brian Mustanski
- Contributor:
- Emily Bettin
- Owner:
- Emily Bettin
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/06/2019
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- Distance learning has increased its presence in academia, and there is a growing trend among higher education music schools to utilize distance learning in tandem with a traditional curriculum. Many instrumental pedagogues do not understand the benefits even though distance learning has been used for close to twenty years in...
- Keyword:
- higher education, massive open online courses, and distance learning
- Subject:
- Viola Performance
- Creator:
- Alisa A. Seavey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Location:
- Evanston
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2019
- Date Created:
- 2015-08-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- On college campuses, one in five women will experience sexual assault in some capacity over the course of their undergraduate experience. College men in fraternities are three times more likely to commit sexually assaultive acts than non-Greek students. Despite pervasive knowledge that fraternity members are often involved in rape on...
- Keyword:
- Rape Culture
- Subject:
- Human Development and Psychological Services
- Creator:
- Alana Farkas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/22/2019
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- Description:
- The theorists who developed Social Justice Education (SJE) claim that its goals are: to critically analyze how oppression operates on an individual, cultural, and institutional level, to harness empathy and respect for others, and, ultimately, to commit to working for lasting change. However, the literature lacks research on how to...
- Keyword:
- Social Empathy, Social Justice Education, and Storytelling
- Creator:
- Samantha Oberman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/22/2019
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- Description:
- This study reports on the results of a psychosocial questionnaire survey of professional symphonic musicians in the United States. The response rate was 12.36% (n= 395) and the sample was members of the International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians (ICSOM) which is a conglomerate of the top 50 orchestras...
- Keyword:
- music performance anxiety, perfectionism, musicians, depression, psychosocial risk, and anxiety
- Subject:
- Flute Performance
- Creator:
- Rachel Johnstone
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- Situated in the heart of urban Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (1976) stands as a monument to the eponymous first president of the Republic of China (ROC). Consisting of a main memorial hall, opera theater, Western concert hall, and surrounding gardens, the memorial complex was constructed...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan, and architecture
- Subject:
- Art History
- Creator:
- Nicholas Liou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
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- Description:
- The decision to breastfeed or formula feed is a largely contested one by mothers, healthcare administrators, and politicians. Yet, research suggests that both breastfeeding and formula feeding are healthy ways to provide nourishment to newborn babies. Considering this, I sought to analyze why this decision is such a site of...
- Keyword:
- gender, discourse, and breastfeeding
- Subject:
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Creator:
- Maya Glenn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Description:
- The study of local adaptation in plants is critical for understanding the evolution of traits that contribute to survival in a dynamic environment, the genes underlying them, and the general process of adaptation. However, in the study of natural, non-model plant species, population-level whole-genome sampling is not always feasible and...
- Keyword:
- plant population genomics, conservation, selection, bioinformatics, and genomics
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Christina Shehata
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Description:
- Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects over 422 million people worldwide. Within their multi-payer healthcare system, Germany has used standardized, evidence-based interventions called Disease Management Programs (“DMP”s) to manage T2D since 2002. Studies have shown markedly improved health care delivery and health outcomes, including reduced incidence of diabetic secondary complications, decreasing...
- Keyword:
- healthcare reform, value-based care, Germany, type 2 diabetes, and Chronic disease management
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences and German
- Creator:
- Sarah Dinegar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
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- Description:
- The study of local adaptation in plants is critical for understanding the evolution of traits that contribute to survival in a dynamic environment, the genes underlying them, and the general process of adaptation. However, in the study of natural, non-model plant species, population-level whole-genome sampling is not always feasible and...
- Keyword:
- conservation, selection, bioinformatics, genomics, and plant population genomics
- Subject:
- Neuroscience; Science in Human Culture
- Creator:
- Christina Shehata
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Keyword:
- Orientalism
- Subject:
- Asian American Studies
- Creator:
- Katherine Lo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/24/2019
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- Description:
- Research has found that both schizophrenia populations and populations at clinical high risk for psychosis show alterations in facial affect expressivity, specifically blunting. However, it is unknown whether these alterations occur prior to onset, or whether they develop as a consequence of psychosis onset processes. The current study sought to...
- Keyword:
- Non-clinical psychosis, FACS, facial expressivity, iMotions, positive symptoms, and dampening
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tina Gupta, Kimberly Rowghani, and Vijay A. Mittal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- Artificial agent development is motivated by the dream of making machines perform undesirable labor instead of humans. To replace humans in undesirable labor, it follows that the machines should not engage in actions that will lead to devastating consequences. They should be “moral” artificial agents. In my paper, I deal...
- Keyword:
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jun Kyung You
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/21/2019
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- Description:
- "The goal of our research has been to create software that extends the benefits of virtual reality (VR) to mathematics education. We report on the design and evaluation of a VR application meant to support students’ reasoning about objects in three-dimensional (3D) coordinate systems and to explore the possibilities of...
- Keyword:
- virtual reality
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Harrison Pearl
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/9/2019
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- Description:
- In humans, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is co-morbid with major depressive disorder. Individuals who are exposed to stress prior to a traumatic event have an increased likelihood of developing PTSD. To study this increased vulnerability, a rat model was developed using the Stress Enhanced Fear Learning (SEFL) paradigm. This study...
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- Corticosterone Glucocorticoid receptor, Stress-enhanced fear learning, Contextual fear conditioning, Rats, Genetic model of depression, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Creator:
- Jenz ST, Lim PH, Przybyl KJ, and Redei EE
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 6/1/2019
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- Description:
- According to the principle of free fall, only gravity acts upon an object in midair. However, as with all scientific principles, free fall plays out differently in practice. In my experiment, I first tested to see the effect of changing the glycerol weight-percentage of a drop of glycerol-water on its...
- Keyword:
- Colloidal Suspension
- Subject:
- Neuroscience
- Creator:
- Samuel Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Description:
- This project is comprised of primary source research on the field of semiconductor microscopy. We were interested in determining a more interdisciplinary application of this technology, as the most frequently cited applications are for defense purposes such as drug screening or infrared imaging. When we researched, we found that these...
- Keyword:
- Terahertz Spectroscopy, Semiconductors, Lasers, and Nanotechnology
- Subject:
- Electrical Engineering
- Creator:
- Vivian Chen and Nathaniel Coirier
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/22/2019
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- Description:
- The Modern Orthodox Jewish (MO) community currently functions on the fantasy that MO teens are receiving all their messaging around sex from their Jewish schools and communities. The messaging these students receive tells them to refrain from sex and touching people of the opposite sex until marriage. This messaging can...
- Keyword:
- Judaism, Sexual Health, Mental Health, and Modern Orthodoxy
- Subject:
- Learning Sciences and Global Health
- Creator:
- Ruthie Charendoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/15/2019
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- Description:
- Image colorization is the process of artificially coloring a black and white image such that this fabrication appears realistic and authentic to the viewer. There are many nontrivial applications of this process, such as the colorization and augmentation of historical photos as well as the removal of color tone filters...
- Keyword:
- image colorization, deep learning, computer vision, machine learning, and convolutional neural networks
- Creator:
- Div Dasani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/23/2019
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- Description:
- Children come to understand race within a historically-established racial hierarchy, but they have the agency to accommodate or resist this establishment as they form their own racial identities. Previous research identified distinct narrative types that either reinforce existing societal structures (Master Narratives) or disrupt them (Alternative Narratives). The Counternarrative...
- Keyword:
- race, narratives, identity development, psychology, and childhood
- Creator:
- Christina Foo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/29/2019
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- Keyword:
- Organizations
- Subject:
- Learning and Organizational Change
- Creator:
- Carlyn Zuckert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 6/21/2019
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- Description:
- Much has already been discovered about the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway and its involvement in patterning and tissue development in embryos, but the specific functions its key components play has not yet been fully elucidated. One potential component is the protein kinase Dop, which is involved in cellular trafficking. Here,...
- Keyword:
- Hedgehog signaling, Dop, and Drosophila melanogaster
- Subject:
- Biological Sciences; Psychology
- Creator:
- CJ Patel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 4/22/2019
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- Description:
- Past research suggests that stereotypes about collective identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, and gender) shape aspirations. However, less is known about how actual representation of collective identity relates to aspirations. The proportion of an identity in a given career will be used as an indicator of numeric representation and I hypothesize...
- Keyword:
- collective identity, representation, and aspirations
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tess Brieva, Regine Debrosse, and Mesmin Destin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- This project was originally motivated by a lifelong love of the Harry Potter series and a teenage love for fan fiction and other fancreated works. I was motivated to do research when I stumbled upon the lack of inclusivity in many fan communities, which I found to be shocking. In...
- Keyword:
- cultural studies, fan fiction, Queer studies, and fan culture
- Subject:
- Theatre
- Creator:
- A. Pallas Gutierrez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/22/2019
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- Description:
- Women in developing countries occupy a unique role in the economy that is often underappreciated, informal and highly vital to the country’s economic stability. Despite their high productivity and output, women in countries such as Morocco lack support from their government and communities as well as the infrastructure necessary to...
- Keyword:
- business development , Female empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and sexism
- Subject:
- Social Policy
- Creator:
- Ankita Ajith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 12/9/2018
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- Keyword:
- higher education
- Subject:
- Education and Social Policy
- Creator:
- Samantha Buresch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-22
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- Keyword:
- Poetry
- Subject:
- English
- Creator:
- Sloane Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Keyword:
- Missouri, History, Superfund, Poetry, and Environment
- Subject:
- Creative Writing Poetry and English
- Creator:
- Sloane Scott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Description:
- From 2008 to 2019, a range of new interactive and immersive digital formats that present new possibilities for musical and artistic expression have become available. In order to begin the work of uncovering what new compositional and experiential possibilities are now possible, this document will examine each format’s core concepts...
- Keyword:
- Björk, Augmented Reality, Brian Eno, Music Composition, iOS Apps, Jay Z, 360 Videos, Generative Music, and Virtual Reality
- Subject:
- Music Composition
- Creator:
- Daniel R. Dehaan
- Owner:
- Daniel Dehaan
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this talk and related activities, I hope to inspire others to take up one of the greatest challenges of our era: narrowing the governance gap which is at the root of many of Africa’s development and security dilemmas. In view of the emergence of many fragile and failed states,...
- Keyword:
- collaborative learning initiative
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The saxophone has long been an instrument at the forefront of new music. Since its invention, supporters of the saxophone have tirelessly pushed to create a repertoire, which has resulted today in an impressive body of work for the yet relatively new instrument. The saxophone has found itself on...
- Keyword:
- opcit, spectralism, nout, saxophone, anubis, grisey, spectral, spp, leroux, and hurel
- Creator:
- Thomas Michael Snydacker
- Owner:
- Thomas Snydacker
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/23/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The villancico de negro is a Baroque paraliturgical subgenre that rose to popularity in the 17th and 18th centuries on the Iberian Peninsula. Colonialism promoted the spread of Spanish practices in the Americas, and the villancico de negro developed in both Spain and New Spain. This genre capitalized on misrepresentational...
- Keyword:
- Negrillas, Baroque, Habla de negros, Villancico de negro, Villancico, and Black characters in music
- Creator:
- Tyrone A. Clinton Jr.
- Owner:
- Tyrone Clinton
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2019
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- Description:
- This document will examine the influence of sacred, Latin, polyphonic, Tudor, choral composition on the compositional style of contemporary British composer, Gabriel Jackson. This examination will lead to an acknowledgement and discussion of the larger trend in 21st-century choral music to incorporate older compositional models into new works. The impetus...
- Keyword:
- Choral Music, Tudor Music, Choir, Gabriel Jackson, and DMA Project
- Subject:
- Conducting
- Creator:
- Christopher Robert Behm Windle
- Owner:
- Christopher Windle
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Personality traits and personal values represent individual differences that influence many forms of behavior including psychopathology (Hanel & Wolfradt, 2016; Jarden, 2010; Ozer & Benet-Martinez, 2006; Schwartz, 2006). Extensive research has highlighted the importance of personality traits in the development of psychopathology in children. However, the association between values and...
- Keyword:
- Racial/Ethnic Differences, Psychopathology, Personality Traits, Middle Childhood, and Values
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Avante Smack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on policy issues in the area of Economics of Innovation. As developed countries are becoming increasingly reliant on innovation for economic growth, it is important to enhance our understanding of how public policies affect innovation. The first chapter examines the effect of government research grants on firms'...
- Keyword:
- Economics of Innovation and Innovation Policy
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Rainer Widmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Modern cosmological simulations are some of the world's largest and most demanding numerical computations that are run on state-of-the-art supercomputers. The codes use N-body and mesh-based methods in gravity-only solvers, and both Lagrangian and Eulerian schemes to model gas dynamics. Even complex astrophysical effects such as of star formation and...
- Keyword:
- Data Analysis, Cosmology, High Performance Computing, and Supercomputing
- Subject:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Esteban Miguel Rangel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- access to health, health education, health literacy
- Creator:
- Shannon Galvin MD
- Owner:
- Shannon Galvin
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/16/2019
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- Keyword:
- data resources, data, data management, open access, slides, open data, and data sharing
- Creator:
- Sara Gonzales and Cunera Buys
- Owner:
- Cunera M Buys
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/07/2019
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- Description:
- Shared emotions are associated with thriving in relationships (Anderson, Keltner & John, 2004; Gonzaga, Campos, & Bradbury, 2007), and greater liking for new individuals (Larson & Gardner, 2015). However, the psychological mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are not well-understood. Emotions are fleeting experiential states and, seen through this lens, finding someone...
- Keyword:
- Synchrony, Interpersonal relationships, and Emotion
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Grace larson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Last two decades have seen a surge of interests in approaches that leverage network structure in machine learning models. For many networks, not only the connections of the network but also the network attributes, such as node attributes and dyadic attributes, are observed. This heterogeneity in networks raises new challenges...
- Keyword:
- Inference, Network analysis, Node classification, Heterogeneous networks, Network Representation Learning, and Community detection
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Yuan Li
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- At the interface of two dissimilar entities, something novel can emerge. This idea has driven a vast amount of fruitful work on semiconductor interfaces, and given us the digital revolution. In the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in the synthesis and understanding of interfaces between oxides, opening up...
- Keyword:
- spin orbit interaction, two dimensional electron gas, and magnetoresistance
- Subject:
- Physics
- Creator:
- Varada Bal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Fused polycyclic scaffolds with three-dimensional complexity from an array of stereocenters compose the core structures of countless natural product families with a variety of desirable biological activity. The development of synthetic methods and strategies to afford rapid access to these structures is essential to expose a wealth of untapped biological...
- Keyword:
- Organic Chemistry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Emily Elizabeth Robinson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a mixed-methods study of municipal building inspections in Chicago. Existing literature demonstrates links between housing, urban governance, perceptions of dilapidated buildings, and racial and economic stratification. Less is known, however, about the intermediary actors who work at the nexus of on-the-ground interpretative processes and city-wide regulation. Building...
- Keyword:
- Sociology
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Robin Bartram
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- Johann Schelle, Heinrich Schütz, Concerto-Aria, Leipzig, J.S. Bach, Buxtehude, Thomaskirche, Lutheran Cantata
- Creator:
- Stephen Spinelli, III
- Owner:
- Stephen Spinelli
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/03/2019
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- Description:
- This book has to do with the period in which Britain’s mandate in Palestine ended, the state of Israel was born, and the Arab refugee problem originated. Many historians have written on these matters, and many more will do so. I arrived in Haifa, Palestine, on 23 December 1947, and...
- Keyword:
- special papers series and program of african studies
- Subject:
- Isreal History, 20th Century, Great Britain Army Officers, Palestine History, and Biography
- Creator:
- Ivor Wilks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2019
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The increasing production and use of nanoscale transition metal oxide materials in the next generation of consumer electronics and electric vehicle batteries, specifically lithium intercalation compounds, may lead to environmental release and exposure, with poorly understood biological outcomes. As the toxicity mechanism of nanomaterials may vary fundamentally from their bulk...
- Keyword:
- hydrogen bonding network, silica/water interface, phospholipid asymmetry, Nano-bio interface, sum frequency generation, and ion mass-spectrometry
- Creator:
- Merve Dogangun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/29/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- While college attendance, persistence, and completion has consistently increased since the 1970s, increases in attainment were greater for students from high-income families compared their low-income counterparts. As a result, low-income students are the least likely to attend or complete college. While college costs and poorer academic preparation are often barriers...
- Keyword:
- Sociology
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Kelly Iwanaga Becker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/29/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- To aid in the successful execution of goal-directed walking (discrete movement from a start location to an end target) the central nervous system forms a predictive motor plan. For the motor plan to be effective, it must be adapted in response to environmental changes. Despite motor planning being inherent to...
- Keyword:
- Motor Control, Internal Model, Gait, Adaptation
- Creator:
- Geoffrey Brown, Keith Edward Gordon, Mengnan/Mary Wu , and Mary Bucklin
- Owner:
- Mary Bucklin
- Location:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/24/2019
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- Description:
- What sets this initiative apart is the commitment to deepening ties between African and non-African institutions and making them more seamless and routine. There is a need to make this case to US institutions - lobbying them to digitize/provide open access, creating relationships with African institutions, prioritizing partnerships and academic...
- Keyword:
- collaborative learning
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Report
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- Description:
- The neural crest is a unique, vertebrate specific stem cell population that gives rise to a diverse set of derivatives in the embryo, including sensory neurons, glial cells, melanocytes, and craniofacial structures such as cartilage, bone, and connective tissue. Unlike other multipotent stem cell populations present at this time, neural...
- Keyword:
- FGF Signaling, Neural Crest, Pluripotency, Cell Signaling, and Stem Cells
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Lauren Geary Bowman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Immune checkpoint inhibitors have not been effective for immunologically “cold” tumors, such as prostate cancer, which contain scarce tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. We hypothesized that select tissue-specific and immunostimulatory bacteria can potentiate these immunotherapies. Here we show that a patient-derived prostate-specific microbe, CP1, in combination with anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, increased survival and...
- Keyword:
- Cancer
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Jonathan Forrest Anker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Developing an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an important precursor to pursuing a STEM career. Given the United States’ relatively low standings in science and math compared to similar industrialized nations and its desire to be competitive in an increasingly STEM-based global economy, policy makers are...
- Keyword:
- Characters, STEM, Gender, Educational Television, Early Childhood, and Race
- Subject:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Fashina Alade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chapter 1 examines the question of how to sell a firm when potential buyers do not know how many other potential buyers there are. The seller can choose to sell the firm either through bilateral negotiations or through an auction. In equilibrium, if the seller observes the number of buyers...
- Keyword:
- Contracts, Informed Principal, Product Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, Auctions, and Negotiations
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Rajkamal Vasu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/22/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This multi-study dissertation investigates the nature of musical independence in the instrumental large ensemble and the instructional practices that are used to foster its development. The dissertation is comprised of three separate papers, each addressing different aspects or approaches to the practice of independent musicianship in large ensembles. While each...
- Keyword:
- lifelong musicianship, student agency, independent learning, transfer of learning, musical independence, and student-centered learning
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Brian Nikolas Weidner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis is naturally split into two parts. In the first part, we develop the theory of multi- linear algebra for Tate objects over exact categories endowed with an exact tensor product. We study all possible choices of tensor product and we give a geometric interpretation of the results. In...
- Keyword:
- Tate objects, determinant, tensor product, and central extension
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Aron Alexandre Heleodoro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/15/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There is a shortage of research models that adequately represent the unique mucosal environment of human ectocervical tissue, which has limited the development of new therapies for treating infection or cancer. I hypothesized that engineering the microenvironment of ectocervical tissue with in vivo-like endocrine and paracrine support, would enable squamous...
- Keyword:
- Progesterone, Estradiol, Mucins, Differentiation, Cervix, and Barrier
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Kelly Elizabeth McKinnon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder affecting approximately 1 in 10 reproductive-age women and remains the leading cause of female factor infertility among women of childbearing age. PCOS presents with features of hyperandrogenism, irregular menses and polycystic ovaries. Twin and family studies have demonstrated high heritability estimates...
- Keyword:
- anti-Mullerian hormone, genetic association, insulin receptor, lamin A/C, hyperandrogenism, and PCOS
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- Lidija Kristina Gorsic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we study arithmetic phenomena exhibited by polynomial dynamical systems on the projective line. Specifically, given a number field $K$, we are interested in the arithmetic of orbits of points $\alpha\in K$ under polynomials $\phi\in K[z]$. Given such a polynomial $\phi$ of degree $d\ge2$, we prove a lower...
- Keyword:
- Mathematics
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Nicole Romain Looper
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three chapters on two broad topics in labor economics: the determinants of early career outcomes and the impact of an aging population (and related policies). The first chapter investigates how the retirement slowdown among older Americans has affected the labor market prospects of younger Americans in recent...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Paul Hong-Lum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation demonstrates how related initiatives to reform narcotics laws and protect consumers from dangerous medicines – taking hold in the 1950s and institutionalized in the mid-1960s – created the foundation for a massive expansion of federal policing of illicit drugs. Centered on the history of the Food and Drug...
- Keyword:
- BDAC, FDA, war on drugs, pharmaceutical, drug abuse, and consumer protection
- Subject:
- 2018-01-01
- Creator:
- Matthew Ross June
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The projected increase in the use of nanomaterials raises concerns about adverse impacts new technologies utilizing these materials may have on the environment. These concerns can be addressed from a chemical perspective by studying how emerging nanomaterials interact with biological systems. Fundamentally, the key interactions for nanomaterial uptake into a...
- Keyword:
- Sustainable, Nanotechnology, Polymers, Nano/Bio, and Biomimetic
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Alicia McGeachy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Sparked by the isolation of graphene in 2004, the research community has developed a family of 2D materials with distinct functionalities, enabling rapid demonstrations of entirely 2D devices with applications in energy, electronics, sensors and medicine. The desire to capitalize on the fantastic properties of 2D materials motivates ongoing efforts...
- Keyword:
- 2D, Borophene, X-ray, Graphene, and Epitaxial
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Gavin Paul Campbell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I describe a novel panel dataset on the U.S. primary care physician population, as well as the institutions and measurement strategies used to study physician behavior in the marketplace. I document several facts on primary care markets and supplier location decisions, the types of patients physicians accept, the scale of...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Organization, Economics of Discrimination, and Economics of Healthcare
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- David Benson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Marathons are long distance running events with many participants, often organized in heavily populated cities. A key component in marathon planning operations is the design of the marathon course to be followed during the race. In addition to the technical requirements regarding length and incline change, marathon courses must satisfy...
- Keyword:
- integer programming, multiobjective optimization, routing, disjunctive programming, and linear programming
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Mehmet Basdere
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Presentation delivered at the 2019 Africa Seminar: Decolonizing the field.
- Keyword:
- Thomas Hodgkin
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/22/2019
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- Description:
- Noncentrosymmetry (NCS) is a requirement for many properties such as piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, and nonlinear optical activity like second harmonic generation which are desirable for a variety of commercial applications. One method which has been employed to successfully synthesize NCS compounds utilizes acentric anionic groups, such as oxyfluoride metal complexes, as...
- Keyword:
- hydrogen bonding, crystallography, oxyfluorides, and noncentrosymmetry
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Jacqueline Renee Cantwell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- High-pressure and high-temperature laboratory experiments on the physical properties of mantle minerals provide a window into the Earth’s interior chemistry and geodynamics. The measurement of material density, compressibility, and elasticity at high P-T conditions provides thermoelastic parameters necessary to model seismic velocities in the Earth’s mantle at regional and global...
- Keyword:
- Material Science
- Subject:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Creator:
- John Daniel Lazarz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Endogenous growth theory has long recognized innovation as one of the key drivers of growth. Understanding what factors encourage or discourage innovative activities and how, in turn, these affect our communities is therefore crucial to inspire policies that promote inclusive growth. This dissertation tries to broaden our comprehension of the...
- Keyword:
- Macroeconomics, Patents, Economic Geography, Economics of Innovation, and Urban Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Enrico Berkes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Dark matter represents one of the most sought after discoveries in physics, and leading theories predict that extremely low-background detectors could be sensitive to nuclear recoils from dark matter interactions. The PICO collaboration uses bubble chambers to look for the energy deposition from such an interaction. However, unknown backgrounds have...
- Keyword:
- dark matter and bubble chamber
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Daniel Baxter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines how the experience of migration and the context of reception influences religious ideas and practices. Using the experience of two branches of a Colombian Evangelical church, one in Miami, Florida and one in Madrid, Spain, I explore the extent to which context of reception and the experiences...
- Keyword:
- Religion, Culture, and Immigration
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Diego Felipe de los Rios
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores human coordination in rhythmic, verbal, and spatial activity, and how coordination in one of these modes may subsequently impact behavior in another mode. My research examines what effects non-conversational actions have on the alignment of spatial perspectives during conversation. I hope to clarify how data about non-linguistic...
- Keyword:
- Coordination, Perspective-taking, Alignment, and Conversation
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katharine Anne Eliot Lysander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The availability and importance of data is accelerating, and our visual system is a critical tool for understanding it. The research field of data visualization seeks design guidelines – often inspired by perceptual psychology – for more efficient visual data analysis. Data visualization can borrow phenomena, tasks, and methods of...
- Keyword:
- information visualization, visual perception, and visual attention
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christine Nothelfer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Complex oxides show great potential for future devices as they offer functionalities beyond what can be delivered by conventional semiconductors. Among the complex oxides, the ABO$_{3}$ perovskite oxides are the most studied and engineered in the form of thin films and heterostructures. This thesis applies powerful synchrotron-based X-ray characterization tools,...
- Keyword:
- Perovskite oxides, Oxygen vacancies, Strontium titanate, Surface X-ray diffraction, Oxide surfaces, and Oxide molecular beam epitaxy
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Seyoung Cook
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This data set was downloaded from the FBI crime data portal: http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/StatebyState.cfm Columns for longitude-latitude for the cities have been added.
- Keyword:
- US city crime data, FBI
- Creator:
- Julia Poncela-Casasnovas
- Owner:
- Julia Poncela Casasnovas
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/02/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- The follicle is the functional unit of the mammalian ovary and serves as a tightly controlled microenvironment where granulosa cells nurture the growth and maturation of the oocyte. Early events in follicular development are autonomous of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and are instead controlled by local factors that are used in...
- Keyword:
- Ovary, Granulosa cells, Notch pathway, and Follicle
- Subject:
- Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program
- Creator:
- Rexxi Diptya Prasasya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this paper, we show almost-Gelfand property of connected symmetric pairs (G, H) over finite fields of large characteristics by showing almost-sigma-invariant property of double coset H\G/H where sigma is the associated anti-involution combining with epsilon-version of Gelfand's trick
- Keyword:
- representation theory, symmetric pair, and Gelfand pair
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Nan Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation shows how a group of novels–written by Peruvian born authors and published in the 20th and 21st centuries–have opened new perspectives about the impact of mass media in the Latin American literary system. I argue that XYZ (1935) by Clemente Palma, La tía Julia y el escribidor (1977)...
- Keyword:
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Subject:
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Creator:
- Marlon Aquino
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes figurations of gender and sexuality in Mexican modernista narratives that construct the modern subject. It discusses how these texts examine, interpret, and constitute subjects that were labeled as “degenerate” by medical, juridical, and criminological discourses in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Those ostensibly “scientific” and “objective” discourses reproduced and...
- Keyword:
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Subject:
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Creator:
- Minwook Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I study how electricity generation firms exert market power, raising price above marginal cost. Typical studies of market power in electricity markets focus on how firms sustain markups in the short-run energy market. I explore other channels electricity generation firms use to strategically maximize profits. First, I analyze strategic investments...
- Keyword:
- Market Power and Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- James Myatt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the relationship between how teams form and what they need to perform. It adopts the perspective that technology is fundamental to organizing in modern workplaces and examines how technology may both enhance and constrain teamwork. By adopting this perspective, two questions naturally follow. First, how do teams...
- Keyword:
- Communication, Organizational Teams, Social Networks, Social Media, Affordances, and Technology Adoption
- Subject:
- Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- Creator:
- Jacqueline Ng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) and, more specifically, RNA interference (RNAi) include the processes by which a small double-stranded RNA, 19 to 22 nucleotides (nts) long, negatively regulates the expression and/or translatability of a target RNA, which harbors reverse complementarity to that small RNA, by recruiting the so-called RNA-Induced Silencing Complex...
- Keyword:
- RNA Interference, shRNA, Cell Death, DISE, siRNA, and Cancer
- Subject:
- Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
- Creator:
- William Edward Putzbach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies the forces that drive the allocation of patients to hospitals in the United States. Even though it seems there is some market discipline in the hospital industry, we observe that many patients go to hospitals far from the quality frontier and we still do not have a...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Mariano Irace
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Hybrid polymer-peptide conjugates are receiving increasing attention as a promising class of biomaterials. Polymer conjugated coiled-coil peptides are a new addition to these designer macromolecules. Even though a variety of experiments and computational simulations have shown stabilization of helices upon polymer conjugation, there are still many questions regarding the conformations...
- Keyword:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Subject:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Dan Ma
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ability of a machine to synthesize textual output in a form of human language is a long-standing goal in a field of artificial intelligence and has wide-range of applications such as spell correction, speech recognition, machine translation, abstractive summarization, etc. The statistical approach to enable such ability mainly involves...
- Keyword:
- language generation, language modeling, natural language processing, machine learning, dictionary definitions, and deep learning
- Subject:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Thanapon Noraset
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The holomorphic sigma-model is a field theory that exists in any complex dimension that describes the moduli space of holomorphic maps from one complex manifold to another. We introduce the general notion of a holomorphic field theory, which is one that is sensitive to the underlying complex structure of the...
- Keyword:
- Renormalization, Batalin-Vilkovisky, Quantum field theory, and Factorization algebras
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Brian R Williams
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The most promising probe into compact binary formation and evolution will be the populations resolved by both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observatories. As with any observation, theoretical models must be characterized to gain a fuller understanding of the underlying physics governing the observed population. Investigation of these models...
- Keyword:
- binary star, population synthesis, Milky Way, gravitational waves, and compact binary
- Subject:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Katelyn Breivik
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- homotopy theory studies a parametrization of stable homotopy theory in terms of algebraic objects called formal groups. Transchromatic homotopy theory is specifically concerned with the behavior of spaces and cohomology theories as these formal groups change in height. We pursue a central transchromatic object, the K(n − 1)- localization of...
- Keyword:
- structured ring spectra, Morava E-theory, Bousfield localization, chromatic homotopy theory, formal groups, and algebraic topology
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Paul Behrents VanKoughnett
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- collaboration, experiment, and protocol
- Creator:
- Mary C. McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/15/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/15/2019
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- Keyword:
- Chinatown and Chicago
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Owner:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/11/2019
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- Keyword:
- US Census, Chicago, and Percent Poor
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Owner:
- Kelsey Rydland
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/11/2019
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- Keyword:
- smartphones, wearables, accelerometer, human activity recognition, and Parkinson's Disease
- Creator:
- Stephen Antos
- Owner:
- Stephen Antos
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/08/2019
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- Description:
- As many retailers are extending their channels to both online and offline, consumers nowadays are increasingly buying products across different shopping platforms, ranging from traditional catalog and retail channels to Internet stores. Thus, it is important to understand how the purchasing experiences and the factors surrounding the multichannel shopping environment...
- Keyword:
- quasi-experiment, product unavailability, Intrahousehold, social interaction, Instrumental variable, and multichannel
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Hyung Sup Bhan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Firms are facing reputational crises with increasing regularity. Despite this, relatively little is known about what types of firm actions consumers will judge to be reprehensible, and how firms should respond once a reputational crisis has occurred. In this dissertation I focus on two specific topics related to firm reputational...
- Keyword:
- Price Increases, Fairness, Pricing, Autonomy, Reputation, and Trust
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Benjamin Jerome Neuwirth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We prove a uniform scalar curvature bound for solutions of the conical Kahler-Ricci flow when the twisted canonical bundle is semiample and the cone divisor is obtained from the associated Iitaka-Kodaira fibration. In the course of the proof we establish uniform bounds for the potential of the metric and its...
- Keyword:
- Conical Kahler Metrics, Geometric Flows, and Kahler-Ricci Flow
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Gregory Edwards
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation