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- Data in support of the manuscript titled "Stability and Maneuverability Interactions During Human Walking Depend on the Maneuver Direction". Abstract: The interplay between stability and maneuverability is fundamental for human walking. Previous research finds conflicting perspectives on how these attributes interact – mechanisms for stable walking can either facilitate or...
- Creator:
- Gordon, Keith E. , Schmitz, Xenia, Shafer, Anna, Grover, Francis M., and Kulkarni, Rucha
- Owner:
- Rucha Niteen Kulkarni
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Modified:
- 06/02/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Increasingly, governments contract with private firms to provide publicly funded or subsidized goods and services, ranging from defense contracts, social insurance programs to small business loans. In such publicly funded, privately provided markets, governments set specific rules and policies to allow efficient provision or allocation of goods and services. Given...
- Keyword:
- Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, and Industrial Organization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kim, Paul HyungSuk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984537 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16535
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- The importance of understanding indoor microbial exposure is increasingly recognized, particularly concerning the emergence of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance. With the advancements of sequencing technologies, our capability of exploring indoor microbial communities has dramatically increased. However, huge challenges remain to translate sequence-based knowledge to actionable interpretations to support human health...
- Keyword:
- Built environment, Infection prevention, Microbiome, Hospital environment, Reference deduplication, and Antimicrobial resistance
- Subject:
- Environmental health, Environmental science, and Microbiology
- Creator:
- Shen, Jiaxian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16420 and etdadmin_upload_962596
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- Literature screening is the process of identifying all relevant records from a pool of candidate paper records in systematic review, meta-analysis, and other research synthesis tasks. This process is time consuming, expensive, and prone to human error. Screening prioritization methods attempt to help reviewers identify most relevant records while only...
- Subject:
- Statistics
- Creator:
- Hou, Zhipeng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16478 and etdadmin_upload_978985
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- We consider data-driven approaches for universal texture modeling via generative adversarial networks and inversion methods. We investigate the properties of the learned representation spaces and demonstrate that a strong link between texture analysis and synthesis is the key to successful texture modeling. First, we visit the problem of texture synthesis...
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Lin, Jue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956970 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16393
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- This dissertation has three chapters. Chapter one evaluates the effects of Short-Time Workin Germany during the great financial crisis. Chapter two describes how British inventors during the industrial revolution worked on more central technologies. This in turn resulted in faster growth. Chapter three builds on a novel patent data set...
- Keyword:
- Search and Matching, Economic History, Heterogeneous Agents, Short-Time Work, Economic Growth, and Technology Network
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Hallmann, Carl Clemens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16486 and etdadmin_upload_980626
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- In the United States, those who have lower income, education level, and occupational prestige, are more likely to develop, have worse symptoms of, and die from a wide range of chronic diseases. This phenomenon prompted much research trying to delineate the underlying pathways, and inflammation has been highlighted as a...
- Subject:
- Psychobiology
- Creator:
- Lam, Phoebe Hok-Yee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16510 and etdadmin_upload_983393
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- Description:
- Tailoring the design of surfaces and interfaces with nanoscale features has the ability to significantly impact biological functions for a swath of applications including drug delivery, structure assembly, and biomedicine. For example, creating spatially defined nanoscale patterns has been known to contribute to changes in cellular architecture and mechanical properties,...
- Subject:
- Bioengineering
- Creator:
- Lin, Millicent
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16456 and etdadmin_upload_972059
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- Efficient and sustainable utilization of global resources represents a grand but achievablechallenge. By leveraging biology, we can transform abundant, but recalcitrant resources like lignin to products ranging from fuel to medicine to polymers. Efforts to do so are expansive, but challenges remain, due in no small part to the difficulty...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Microbiology, Lignin, Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1, Microbiology, Metabolic Engineering, and Scale-Up
- Subject:
- Chemical engineering
- Creator:
- Arvay, Erika
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16448 and etdadmin_upload_970840
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- Political theorists generally ascribe to the state a decisive role in the formation and protection of property rights, a view especially prevalent in the historiography of financial property in the United States. Given the capacities of government at the American Founding, however, such accounts are implausible. Drawing on writings composed...
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Dabrowski, Tomash
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16459 and etdadmin_upload_972881
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- Description:
- Motor abnormalities (e.g., dyskinesia, psychomotor slowing, neurological soft signs) are core features of schizophrenia observed from the premorbid period through chronic illness, suggesting motor dysfunction may reflect the pathophysiology of psychosis. Among this list of motor abnormalities, psychomotor slowing in particular is one of the most consistently observed and robust...
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology
- Creator:
- Osborne, Kenneth Juston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_979409 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16481
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- Description:
- Situated at the intersection of literary, religious, and economic studies, this dissertation examines how late medieval writers used commercial practice to invent new modes of penitential piety. Challenging scholarship that characterizes the relationship between church and commerce as exclusively antagonistic or corrosive, I argue that the convergence of these two...
- Keyword:
- economic humanities, religious practice, commerce, lay piety, and penance
- Subject:
- English literature
- Creator:
- Jiang, Nancy Haijing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962361 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16416
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- Description:
- Recent developments have enabled L12-strengthened Co-based superalloys, which have thepotential to surpass Ni-based superalloys as the material of choice for the hottest sections of turbine blades due to cobalt’s 40 ºC higher melting point. The most-studied branch of Co-based superalloys are based on the L12 phase Co3(Al,W); however, there is...
- Keyword:
- Creep, Cobalt, Machine Learning, High Entropy Alloys, Superalloys, and Microstructure
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Ohl, Brandon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971014 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16450
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- Description:
- The on-going demand for miniaturized optical and on-chip photonic systems of the future has led to a few potential solutions in the literature. Recent advances in van der Waals and 2-dimensional materials signal a bright future for the next generation, compact electronic and photonic devices. With reduced dimensionality and material...
- Keyword:
- Plasmons, 2D materials, Phonons, Wave plate, van der Waals, and Polarization
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Optics, and Electromagnetics
- Creator:
- Abedini Dereshgi, Sina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16396 and etdadmin_upload_958293
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we consider the spherical spin glass models at zero temperature. We first determine the structureof the Parisi measure at zero temperature for the spherical p+s spin glass model. We then consider the spherical mixed p-spin model and show that for the spherical spin models with n components,...
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Zhou, Yuxin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985448 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16557
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- Description:
- Involuntary motor activities such as spasms arise from hyperreflexia in about 70% of individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Despite this prevalence and the negative impact on health and safety, it is unclear what determines the severity of the spasms that develop. This study investigated the impact of injury severity...
- Keyword:
- Spinal Cord Injury, Movement Disorder, and Serotonin
- Subject:
- Neurosciences, Physiology, and Biology
- Creator:
- Shelton, Owen Adio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16444 and etdadmin_upload_970159
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- Description:
- The Neoproterozoic Era (1,000-542 Ma) was a critical period in Earth’s history that involved global glaciations, changes in the redox state of Earth's oceans, and dramatic negative carbon isotope (δ13C) excursions, which terminated with the evolution of animal life and the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Interrogating the carbon isotope composition...
- Keyword:
- paleoclimate, carbonate geochemistry, diagenesis, isotope geochemistry, and paleoceanography
- Subject:
- Geochemistry
- Creator:
- Sarvian, Niloufar Lilly
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986124 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16576
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- Description:
- Nanomaterials present an exciting landscape of innovation at length scales below 100 nm, wherein controllable synthesis and materials metrology have led to tunable structure-property relationships and next-generation products. The disruptive field of nanotechnology is poised to capitalize upon the exotic chemistry and physics of these nanomaterials to enable more efficient...
- Keyword:
- electronic materials, 2D materials, graphene, scalable manufacturing, nanomaterials, and nanomanufacturing
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Nanotechnology, and Engineering
- Creator:
- Downing, Julia Rocio
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985168 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16548
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- Description:
- The production and spread of digital news involves a wide range of actors: journalists and the organizations that employ them, social media platforms, audiences, and myriad commentators, citizen journalists, bloggers, and other actors who contribute to the news ecosystem without inhabiting an official role. These actors interact in flexible, often...
- Keyword:
- simulation, digital journalism, computational social science, complexity, algorithms, and network analysis
- Subject:
- Journalism, Computer science, and Communication
- Creator:
- Hagar, Nicholas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16531 and etdadmin_upload_984386
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- Description:
- In the first part of the thesis we,given a dg-Lie algebra $\g$, a commutative dg-algebra $A$ and a twisting cochain $\mu$ in $A \otimes \g$, we construct a map from the functor of curved deformations of $\g$ to the functor of curved deformations of the twisted tensor product $A \otimes_\mu...
- Keyword:
- Lie coalgebra, A-infinity algebras, L-infinity algebras, Period map, Deformation theory, and Quantization
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Papayanov, Grigory
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16566 and etdadmin_upload_985714
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- Description:
- Every day, we communicate through computers on projects ranging from a group lunch order to booking a flight to learning critical medical information. And every day, we also miscommunicate through computers: We don’t pick up on an intentionally humorous response, or we miss the criticality of a request. This is...
- Keyword:
- Social Science, Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Keystroke Dynamics
- Subject:
- Communication
- Creator:
- Goodkind, Adam Nathaniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962518 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16417
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- Description:
- Since Infrared radiation was discovered in 1800s, the research and applications on the infrared regime have been continually developed. The infrared detectors are the key technology in these applications and have been successfully used for medical imaging, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), free-space optical communication, target tracking and object identification...
- Keyword:
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Infrared Photodetector, Type-II Superlattices, and Phototransistor
- Subject:
- Electrical engineering
- Creator:
- Li, Jiakai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16389 and etdadmin_upload_954624
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- Description:
- Visual processing often requires the coordination of different neurophysiological regions in the visual system to independently represent and then re-integrate the different features of an object to gain an accurate and coherent representation of that object. Yet, under certain circumstances, this process can go awry and result in illusory misbindings,...
- Keyword:
- Binding, Visual attention, and Visual perception
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology
- Creator:
- Ceja, Cristina Renee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983569 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16517
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- Description:
- Different features of the visual world are conveyed to the retino-recipient regions of the brain by more than 40 types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCS). Feature detection by RGCs depends on a combination of intrinsic and morphological properties where the interplay of excitatory and inhibitory inputs occurs through local retinal...
- Keyword:
- Retina, Amacrine Cells, and Intersectional Genetics
- Subject:
- Neurosciences, Physiology, and Ophthalmology
- Creator:
- Jo, Andrew Oh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971727 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16453
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- Description:
- Understanding the characteristics of interfaces between materials and solvent media such as structure, chemistry, and charge remains crucial to determining the properties and performance of numerous systems and technologies. This thesis focuses specifically on characterizing the interactions of water at oxide interfaces. A large collection of questions remains unanswered about...
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Ma, Emily
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16438 and etdadmin_upload_968387
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- Description:
- In the Maximum-a-Posteriori (MAP) Inference problem, for any given probability distribution, the goal is to find the point in the support of that distribution with the highest probability. Potts models and Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models that were introduced in the context of statistical physics several decades ago....
- Keyword:
- Linear Programming, Determinantal Point Process, Streaming Algorithms, MAP Inference, Online Algorithms, and Potts Model
- Subject:
- Statistics and Computer science
- Creator:
- Talla, Aravind Reddy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985524 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16561
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- Description:
- Findings in both humans and animal models have associated the hippocampal theta oscillation with hippocampal memory function. In animal models, previous research supports that the theta oscillation contributes to memory via phase-dependent changes in hippocampal network connectivity, wherein memory encoding versus retrieval are optimized at different phases of the theta...
- Keyword:
- oscillation, theta, TMS, phase, intracranial, and hippocampus
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Lurie, Sarah M
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16394 and etdadmin_upload_956997
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- Description:
- We establish the criterion for chaos in three-planet systems, for systems similar to those discovered by the Kepler spacecraft. Our main results are as follows: (i) The simplest criterion, which is based on overlapping mean motion resonances (MMRs), only agrees with numerical simulations at a very crude level. (ii) Much...
- Keyword:
- Warps, Protoplanetary Disks, Chaos, Planets, Simulations, and Dynamics
- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Creator:
- Rath, Jeremy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_956915 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16392
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- Description:
- Aging is the greatest known risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); however, the molecular mechanisms underlying aging and how it can initiate and or exacerbate AD, is still unknown. Epigenetic regulation has been widely accepted to play an essential role in aging or AD-related processes; however, whether dysregulations of histone...
- Keyword:
- HDACs, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, and Epigenetics
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- McClarty, Bryan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_954939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16390
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- Description:
- Human olfactory function is important for a myriad of behaviors, including food seeking, social cognition, memory, emotional regulation, and detecting environmental threats. In animal models, particularly dense olfactory inputs have been shown to target orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region involved in multimodal sensory integration, reward coding, and flexibly guiding our...
- Keyword:
- diffusion magnetic resonance imaging, alzheimer's disease, olfaction, tractography, aging, and orbitofrontal cortex
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Echevarria-Cooper, Shiloh Luela
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_952134 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16387
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- Description:
- Relative to individual level exposures (such as childhood trauma, life events, and bullying exposure), contextual or systems level environmental factors have received relatively less attention in the psychology literature. While landmark epidemiological and sociological studies have uncovered key insights with regards to systems, this knowledge has not often been translated...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vargas, Teresa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_924463 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16196
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- Description:
- CD95/Fas ligand (CD95L) is a well characterized activator of extrinsic apoptosis. CD95L protein binds to its cognate receptor, CD95/Fas/APO-1, inducing apoptotic signaling in sensitive cells. However, expression of CD95L is toxic even in the absence of CD95. We previously reported that the CD95L open reading frame (ORF) is enriched for...
- Keyword:
- FasL, RNA toxicity, Cell death, and RNA interference
- Subject:
- Molecular biology
- Creator:
- Haluck-Kangas, Ashley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_949365 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16384
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- Description:
- SCN2A encodes the NaV1.2 voltage-gated sodium channel, which is thought to contribute to the development of the central nervous system. Pathogenic variants in SCN2A have been associated with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), including developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE), intellectual disability (ID), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These disorders represent a significant...
- Keyword:
- ion selectivity, neurodevelopmental disorder, sex differences, SCN2A, mouse model, and strain dependence
- Subject:
- Neurosciences, Molecular biology, and Genetics
- Creator:
- Echevarria-Cooper, Dennis Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_966256 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16435
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- Description:
- As our world is increasingly filled with data visualizations, having the skills to leverage data visualizations is essential for participation in society. Confident engagement with data visualizations is critical for being an educated member of society; however, research has shown that it is difficult for individuals to digest and gain...
- Subject:
- Design, Computer science, and Educational technology
- Creator:
- Thompson, JaCoya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16451 and etdadmin_upload_971103
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- Description:
- The societies of the former Yugoslavia are only a quarter-century removed from extensive warfare, yet collectively represent one of the fastest-growing tourism destinations in the world. This dissertation employs a global and relational lens to examine how contested narratives of recent conflict history are marketed, performed, and narrativized in settings...
- Keyword:
- Yugoslavia, Tourism, Cultural performance, Collective memory, and National reputation
- Subject:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Levin, Jeremy Kuperberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983431 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16511
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- Description:
- This thesis explores the potential of two-dimensional (2D) or van der Waals (vdW) materials for printed optoelectronic devices. The research focuses on the development of processing, imaging, and modeling of materials and thin-film devices to optimize performance and introduce novel properties. A gate-dependent resistor network model is presented that establishes...
- Keyword:
- printed electronics, thin-film transistors, 2D materials, transition metal dichalcogenides, finite element simulation, and scanning probe microscopy
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Zhu, Zhehao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16504 and etdadmin_upload_982806
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to understand how Black Chicagoans work with institutions and neighbors they distrust to pursue common policy goals – in this case, to remedy state and community violence. I introduce the theory of distrustful cooperation. Using three Chicago neighborhoods as cased studies: Greater Englewood, Bronzeville, and Calumet Heights,...
- Keyword:
- American Politics, REP, Black Politics, Urban Politics, and Qualitative
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Zimmerman, Justin Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984528 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16534
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- Description:
- This dissertation reconstructs North and South Carolina Lowcountry plantation waterfronts as a means of better understanding mobility, inequality, and human-environment interactions in the antebellum Lowcountry. Using a theoretical framework of hydrosociality, the author undertook archaeological and archival research to investigate the question: how did the built environment of navigable waterways...
- Keyword:
- Anthropology, Archaeology, and Maritime Studies
- Subject:
- Archaeology
- Creator:
- Schwalbe, Emily Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16584 and etdadmin_upload_986235
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- Description:
- Due to their widespread applicability, graphs and networks appear in various contexts. The increasing scale of graphs encountered in the real-world requires the developmentof efficient algorithms that run reasonably fast and produce close to optimal solutions. The main focus of this thesis is the development of fast graph algorithms for...
- Keyword:
- Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, Algorithms, Parallel Algorithms, Approximation Algorithms, and Dynamic Algorithms
- Subject:
- Computer science
- Creator:
- Sukprasert, Pattara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984409 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16533
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the economics of health and housing policies. In the first chapter, I discuss information disclosure policies in healthcare. Information disclosure programs can help consumers make better choices, but the consumers who respond the most to the information may not benefit the most or generate the most savings...
- Keyword:
- Information Disclosure, Health, Applied Microeconomics, and Rent Control
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Holz, Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16550 and etdadmin_upload_985254
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- Description:
- Machine learning is seeping into every fabric in various practical domains such as autonomous driving, wearable computing, and smart buildings. However, in the actual development and integration, especially when the learning-based components are frequently included as components of large complex systems where the physical instances can be included as interactable...
- Keyword:
- Computer Vision, Building HVAC Control, Image Classification, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, and Transfer Learning
- Subject:
- Computer science and Computer engineering
- Creator:
- Xu, Shichao
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_983783 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16519
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- Description:
- Bio-integrated electronics with advanced monitoring capabilities have garnered considerable interest as a means of expanding patient care beyond traditional hospital and clinic settings. These mechanically soft microsystems, many of which are bioresorbable and wireless, have the potential to replace bulky, rigid, and wired medical technologies by matching or exceeding their...
- Keyword:
- Injectable Electronics, Electromagnetics, Engineering Modeling, Bioresorbable Pacemakers, Mechanics, and Skin-Integrated Electronics
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering, Electromagnetics, and Biomedical engineering
- Creator:
- Avila, Raudel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_970258 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16445
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- Description:
- Amyloid beta oligomers (AβOs) are a key instigator of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The work presented in this thesis includes three disease-modifying approaches to disrupt pathological AβO-related mechanisms in AD: (1) inhibiting AβO buildup, (2) blocking AβO-induced tau phosphorylation, and (3) neutralizing AβOs. These three approaches were tested in...
- Keyword:
- Amyloid beta oligomer
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Johnson, Elizabeth Anne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16421 and etdadmin_upload_962600
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- Description:
- Popular histories of United States mass incarceration often focus on federal wars on crime, law and order policing, and the passage of harsh sentencing laws to explain how the United States transformed into the world’s leader in incarceration. My dissertation on the crisis of state prison overcrowding and prisoner resistance...
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Rosen, Charlotte E.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981154 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16491
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- Description:
- Our sense of smell, or olfaction, is one of our most evolutionarily ancient senses. In vertebrates, olfaction plays a crucial role in many functions, such as detecting and evaluating food, avoiding predators, regulating appetite, spatial navigation, and selecting mating partners. In addition, the olfactory system is highly dynamic and exhibits...
- Keyword:
- Olfaction, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Neuroimaging, Perceptual Coding, and Encoding Models
- Subject:
- Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Sagar, Vivek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986169 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16580
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- Description:
- As more thermoelectric materials/devices make it into the market for various applications, severalaspects need to be explored and optimized, beyond simply targeting high conversion efficiency at the material levels. One critical aspect is the guarantee of mechanical stability at both the material and the device level, which demands deeper understanding...
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Al Malki, Muath Mohammed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_988614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16622
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- Description:
- In this thesis, we discuss classical and recent results around the damped wave equation on compact and noncompact manifolds. We firstly show that on asymptotically cylindrical and conic manifolds, the geometric control condition and the network control condition give exponential and logarithmic decay rates respectively. We then show that a...
- Keyword:
- damped waves, sharp energy decay, Carleman estimates, and noncompact manifolds
- Subject:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Wang, Ruoyu P. T.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986144 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16577
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on two topics in international macroeconomics: the identification of the international spillovers of US interest rate shocks, and the study of its main transmission channels. In Chapter 1, I present the Spillover Puzzle of US Monetary Policy - the fact that in response to a US interest...
- Keyword:
- Borrowing constraints, Monetary policy, US interest rates, International macroeconomics, and International spillovers
- Subject:
- Economics and Islamic studies
- Creator:
- Camara, Santiago
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986672 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16600
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- Description:
- As the technology enabling touch-sense rendering of virtual textures grows in efficacy and prevalence, so too grows the need for a standardized means of storing, transferring, and reconstituting textural signals. Furthermore, to achieve the ultra-low-latency requirements of the next generation of global communications networks, this digital texture representation must be...
- Keyword:
- Virtual Texture, Touch, Ultrasonic Friction Reduction, Tactile Signal Compression, and Haptics
- Subject:
- Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Burns, David Arthur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_962297 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16413
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- Description:
- This dissertation aims to understand the contribution of schools to reducing bullying behaviors and, in turn, to examine the benefits for students of attending a school that effectively reduces bullying. In doing so, this dissertation contributes to the literature on bullying by a) locating the school as a key environment...
- Keyword:
- Bullying
- Subject:
- Secondary education and Education policy
- Creator:
- Kiguel, Sebastian
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16588 and etdadmin_upload_986319