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1. Global concern over drinking water: Code for analysis
perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs, drinking water, water insecurity, and harm
Sera L. Young and Joshua D. Miller
Sera Young
Software or Program Code
2. Motivators and barriers to cerebral palsy research participation
This data was a part of a REDCap survey opened from 5/6/2020 to 7/7/2020. Potential participants with cerebral palsy and their families voluntarily responded to various questions about the motivators, barriers, and goals associated with the decision to participate in cerebral palsy research. Included in this work are the dataset...
Sukal-Moulton, Theresa, Ingo, Carson, Zvolanek, Kristina, Hill, Nayo, Joshi, Divya, Roth, Heidi, Goyal, Vatsala, and Hruby, Alex
Vatsala Goyal
3. The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation
civil rights, abolition, critical race theory, rule of law, and constitutional law
Paul Gowder
Paul Anthony Gowder
4. Characteristics of early-stage research into human genes
Throughout the last two decades several scholars observed that present-day research into human genes rarely turns toward genes that had not already been extensively investigated in the past. Guided by hypotheses derived from studies of science and innovation, we present here a literature-wide data-driven meta-analysis to identify the specific scientific...
Stoeger, Thomas
Thomas Stoeger
5. Height and Depth in Black Literature
This thesis discussed how motifs of height and depth in Black literature highlight Black characters' inability to form positive racial identities. The thesis uses three canonical pieces of Black literature, Passing, Native Son, and Plum Bun, to demonstrate that Black characters who try to reimagine White space are forced into...
Stovall, Jessica Lee
Chris Diaz
6. Worlds Collide
Major American Author and James Baldwin
Lydia E. Wuorinen
Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
7. A Texan Summer: Part One
Care Home, Memory Loss, and Fiction
8. Evaluating How Students Comprehend Title IX Policies at the Undergraduate Level
Inter-Rater Reliablity, Statistical Analyses, Cohen's Kappa Coefficient, Cognitive Dissonance, Policy, Title IX, Sexual Assault, and Clery Act
9. Data-driven playback of natural tactile texture via broadband friction modulation
Roman Grigorii
Roman Vasilievich Grigorii
10. Building Material Selection and Use An Environmental Guide [2nd Edition]
building materials, disaster reconstruction, climate change, environment, disaster management, and sustainability
Stephen H. Carr, PhD, P.E. Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Missaka Hettiarachchi PhD, CEng Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund, William M. Miller, PhD Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Mike M. McMahon Strategic Partnerships Administrator, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University., Vidushi Dwivedi, MS Research Assistant, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University, Jennifer B. Dunn, PhD Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University , and Anita Van Breda Senior Director, Environment and Disaster Management World Wildlife Fund
Jennifer Pepson-Elwood , Megan McConnell, Elham Ramyar, and Vasantha Wakkumbura
Mike McMahon
Alternate Identifier:
DOI 10.21985/n2-139p-gw08 and ISBN 978-0-578-31332-0
11. Child and Family Policy in the 21st Century: A Focus on Early Childhood Education and Parental Work
This dissertation consists of three studies related to parental employment, maternity leave policy, and early care and education. In study 1, my coauthor and I evaluate the impact of parenthood on men and women's job performance and career advancement using detailed data from the U.S. Marines. For parents who remain...
Public policy, Labor economics, and Education
Healy, Olivia
Scholarly Digital Publishing
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12. The Children of Timelessness: Contemplative Poetry of the Soviet Stagnation
This dissertation explores the poetry and culture of the late-Soviet era of Stagnation (1964-1985) through a broadly conceived cultural metaphor of stagnation. The five Russian poets and one American poet in this study- Viktor Krivulin, Alexei Parshchikov, Aleksandr Eremenko, Ivan Zhdanov, Elena Shvarts, and Lyn Hejinian- each engage with a...
Russian Intellectual History , End of History , Russian Poetry, Soviet Stagnation, Russian Postmodernism , and Soviet Underground
Modern literature, Slavic literature, and Slavic studies
Topoleski, Anthony
13. A Sociable Silence: Silence and Sympathy in the Victorian Novel
This dissertation argues that silence played a fundamental role in the Victorian novel and in Victorian novel writing, operating as a productive force in service of sympathetic exchange and creative labor. It examines Charles Lamb's and Thomas Carlyle's foundational roles in detaching silence from its traditional Romantic associations with solitude,...
Space, Victorian, Literature, Sympathy, Silence, and Environment
History and English literature
Mason, Sarah Michelle
14. Poly-pathway effects of dopamine covered iron oxide core - titanium dioxide shell nanoparticles
This thesis proposes a robust multi-pronged approach to study the effect of nanoparticles on cells. In the first place, this work is focused on investigation of the protein corona that accumulates on the surface of nanoparticles internalized by the cells and their poly-pathway effects on protein availability and messenger RNA...
SR-FTIR, Nanoparticles, PARP, XFM, and BIRC5
Biology, Nanotechnology, and Biochemistry
Lastra, Ruben Omar
etdadmin_upload_837951 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15671
15. Misregulation of Mitochondria-Lysosome Contact Sites in GBA-linked Parkinson's Disease
Mitochondria-lysosome contacts are recently identified sites for mediating crosstalk between both organelles, but their role in normal and diseased human neurons remains unknown. We used super-resolution and live-cell microscopy in human iPSC-derived neurons to demonstrate that mitochondria-lysosome contacts can dynamically form in the soma, axons, and dendrites of human neurons,...
Lysosome, Mitochondria, iPSC, Interorganelle contacts, GBA, and Parkinson's disease
Neurosciences, Molecular biology, and Cellular biology
Kim, Soojin
16. A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Social Support and Homophily in Weight Loss
The prevalence of obesity within the US continues to rise, and many individuals elect to involve supportive others in their weight loss. Social support is generally helpful in weight management, but its mechanisms are less understood. One construct that deserves further attention is homophily, or the notion that "birds of...
Weight Loss, Homophily, Obesity, Social Support, Behavior Change, and Intervention
Clinical psychology, Behavioral psychology, and Behavioral sciences
Hoffman Marchese, Sara
17. Effect of Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity on Invasion Resistance in Restored Tallgrass Prairies
The question of how native species diversity affects a community's ability to resist invasive species has inspired decades of research. One of the oldest invasion biology hypotheses is that more species rich ecosystems are less invaded. While there has been strong support for this hypothesis, there is also strong evidence...
invasive species, community ecology, phylogenetic diversity, ecological restoration, and functional diversity
Plant sciences, Ecology, and Conservation biology
Ernst, Adrienne
18. Psychosocial Determinants Related to Medication Taking Behaviors in Patients with Type II Diabetes
Recent estimates indicate that 21 million US adults live with Type II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The management of the condition often requires patients to take multiple prescription medications to prevent disease progression; yet prescribed regimens themselves can become burdensome. Studies have shown that for patients with T2DM, the average regimen...
Russell, Andrea M
19. Methods for Synthesizing and Translating Statistical Evidence in Education
This dissertation is a collection of three papers on synthesizing and translating statistical evidence in education research. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction and executive summary, and Chapters 2 - 4 contain the three substantive papers respectively. Chapter 2 presents methods for pooling sample variances across studies to improve properties...
meta-analysis, clearinghouse data, translation science, data visualization, statistical cognition, and evidence synthesis
Statistics and Education
Fitzgerald, Kaitlyn Grace
20. Haunting as Historical Thinking: Learning to Construct Whiteness in History Classrooms
How we remember, narrate and teach the past is an inherently political and ethical act. This is especially true when teaching about race and racism within the context of United States history. In this dissertation, I ask: how do young people narrate the durability of racial inequality in the United...
History and Education
Berry, Allena Ginneh
21. Excited State Dynamics of Non-Fullerene Acceptors Towards Solar Energy Conversion Applications: Multi-Chromophore Rylenediimide Arrays and Beyond
Recent developments in research concerning organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have overseen massive increases in device performance and the ascension of electron acceptor materials that outclass the preeminent acceptor compounds, buckminsterfullerene (C60) derivatives. New design strategies in the molecular structure of perylenediimides (PDIs) and fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have increased single-junction photovoltaic...
Alzola, Joaquin Miguel
22. Mind Perception and Emotions in Evaluative Contexts
The prospect of being evaluated by others is oftentimes psychologically crippling. At the core of feeling evaluated is perceiving other minds capable of possessing (judgmental) thoughts and feelings. While research on mind perception in evaluative situations oftentimes examines positive aspects (e.g., increased prosocial behavior), this dissertation looks into how mind...
Social psychology and Management
Schweitzer, Shane
23. Sub-diffusion and Compartmentalization: How the Nuclear Pore Complex and Stochastic Movement are Utilized to Dynamically Organize the Eukaryotic Genome
In nearly all Eukaryotes, the membrane-enclosed nucleus contains the vast majority of the cellular genome. Within this sub-cellular compartment, the nuclear architecture facilitates genomic chromatin organization. Controlling chromosomal loci's spatial positioning relative to subnuclear structures and each other can have local and global effects on gene expression. Moreover, chromatin organization...
Statistics, Epigenetics, Genome, Yeast, Nucleus, and Diffusion
Molecular biology, Genetics, and Biophysics
Sumner, Michael Chas
24. Gold Nanostars: Importance of Nanoparticle Shape at The Single-Particle Level
Noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) have shown promise as imaging agents, drug delivery platforms, and plasmonic sensors. Anisotropic gold NPs, such as gold nanostars, have particularly received attention due to their shape-dependent optical and spectral properties. With their 3D anisotropic structure with branches protruding into different directions and high surface areas,...
Nanostar, DIC Microscopy, Nanoparticle, and Electron Tomography
Choo, Priscilla
25. Probing the Hydrogen-Bonding Network at Soft Matter and Metal:Metal:Oxide:Water Interfaces
The ubiquitous role of water in biochemical, electrochemical, and geochemical systems has driven scientific interest in studying the fundamental hydrogen-bonding interactions that water molecules exhibit in the presence of different materials.Specifically, we focus on the interactions characterizing water at the interface between two bulk media, as these are essential to...
Dalchand, Naomi
26. Development of Bioresponsive Small Molecule Probes for Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
In an era of personalized medicine, the clinical community has become increasingly focused on understanding diseases at the cellular and molecular level. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging modality for acquiring anatomical and functional information. However, it has limited applications in field of molecular imaging due to low...
Magnetic resonance imaging, Bioresponsive probe, Contrast agent, Lanthanide Probe, and Molecular imaging
Li, Hao
27. Protein Stabilization with Metal–Organic Frameworks for Drug Delivery and Catalysis
Proteins are known to have diverse biomedical functions and excellent catalytic performance; however, they are also fragile outside living cells, challenging their use in industrial applications. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous crystalline materials that consist of metal cluster nodes and organic linkers. With their rigid structures, MOFs can effectively...
Protein Stabilization, Drug Delivery, and Biocatalysis
Chen, Yijing
28. Development and Characterization of PEG-b-PPS Nanocarriers for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Drug Delivery
Like many diseases, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is driven by the activity of inflammatory cells. Using molecular imaging to target and analyze populations of inflammatory cells is one promising strategy to non-invasively assess atherosclerosis progression. However, current molecular imaging contrast agents are not suited for such targeted imaging applications. Nanomaterial-based strategies...
Nanomaterials, Targeted delivery, Nanoparticles, Drug delivery, and Magnetic resonance imaging
Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering, and Nanotechnology
Modak, Mallika
29. Precision Medicine for Human Complex Diseases through Integrative Analysis of Novel Epigenetic Modifications
Human complex diseases such as common cancers and diabetes are characterized by high molecular heterogeneity contributed by both genetic and non- genetic factors. This molecular heterogeneity can not only complicate diagnosis, risk stratification and patient care, but also lead to differential therapeutic response and treatment efficiency. Therefore, understanding the molecular...
Precision medicine , Cancer , Epigenetics, Complex disease , and Diabetes
Epidemiology and Bioinformatics
Zeng, Chang
30. Methods for Nonlinear and Noisy Optimization
In this thesis, we aim to develop efficient algorithms with theoretical guarantees for noisy nonlinear optimization problems, with and without constraints, under various different assumptions. Apart from Chapter 1 which provides relevant backgrounds, the remaining of thesis is divided into four chapters. In Chapter 2, we establish the theoretical convergence...
LBFGS, noisy optimization, quasi-Newton, derivative-free optimization, nonlinear optimization, and BFGS
Computer science and Industrial engineering
Xie, Yuchen
31. Modeling the dynamical neural systems on different timescales
With neurons as its primary computational components, the brain operates at multiple timescales. In this thesis, we focus on two timescales: on a relatively slow timescale on the order of hours to days, the brain adapts to the environment it is exposed to and learns its circuitry by altering the...
Synchronization, Binocular matching, Primary visual cortex , Neuronal heterogeneity, Computational neuroscience, and Gamma rhythm
Xu, Xize
32. Investigating Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions at Single-Nanoconstruct Level
Nanoparticles (NPs) are emerging as attractive drug carriers in therapeutic and diagnostic applications. The physiochemical properties of NPs, such as particle size, shape, and surface chemistry, play important roles in the functions of engineered nanoconstructs−NP cores with surface ligands. Recent work has screened these properties by monitoring cellular uptake and/or...
Liu, Tingting
33. The Pocket: A Theory of Beats as Domains
This dissertation proposes a theory that views beats as probabilistic domains that I term "pockets," taking a vernacular term commonly used by jazz, funk, and popular music performers to describe the state of being in a good groove and making it concrete through empirical methods. Pockets have three key properties:...
rhythm, microtiming, music information retrieval, and corpus studies
Hosken, Fred
34. Spatial Thinking and the Learning of Mathematics in the Game of Go
Although there has been profound evidence showing the positive correlation between spatial abilities and math performances, we still know very little about how and why spatial thinking facilitates the learning of mathematics. This dissertation unpacks several aspects of mathematics that are embedded in learning and playing an ancient and rich...
Mathematics, Spatial thinking, Game , and Learning
Mathematics education, Education, and Educational psychology
Yu, Yanning
35. Noise-Protected Superconducting Quantum Circuits
Superconducting circuits are electrical circuits fabricated from superconducting materials. Due to the engineered strong interactions and suppressed sensitivity to environmental noise, such systems hold substantial promise as quantum bits, in which quantum information can be stored and manipulated with high fidelity. Over the decades, great efforts have been devoted to...
Two-level systems, Quantum computation, Superconducting qubits, Noise-protected qubits, Quantum information, and Circuit quantization
You, Xinyuan
36. Bayesian-robust Algorithms Analysis with Applications in Mechanism Design
This thesis studies Bayesian-robustness of algorithm design. The main perspective requires for a single fixed algorithm that its performance is an approximation of the optimal performance when its inputs are independent and identical draws (i.i.d.) from every unknown distribution which is an element of a known, large class of distributions....
mechanism design, prior independent algorithms, benchmark design, and lower bounds
Johnsen, Aleck
37. Uncovering Molecular Mechanisms of C9orf72- and NEK1-related ALS Pathogenesis Using iPSC-Derived Motor Neurons
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor neuron (MN) degeneration and resulting in progressive paralysis and death. ALS is genetically heterogeneous, disease pathophysiology is not completely understood, and there are no effective drug therapies. To develop broadly applicable therapeutics, we examine disease mechanisms in the...
nucleocytoplasmic transport, NEK1, microtubules, iPSCs, C9orf72, and ALS
Daley, Elizabeth
38. Immunomodulatory Receptors in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a ubiquitous human pathogen capable of causing debilitating diseases such as herpes stromal keratitis (HSK) and herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). Although HSV infection initiates disease pathogenesis, the resulting clinical manifestations are attributed to immunopathological events that occur following viral clearance. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms...
herpes simplex virus, herpes stromal keratitis, TAM receptors, herpes simplex encephalitis, and herpesvirus entry mediator
Virology and Immunology
Park, Seo Jin
39. Some Examples of Unique Equilibrium States and Measures of Maximal Entropy
We prove the uniqueness of equilibrium states for certain potentials satisfying the Bowen property for two flows related to geodesic flows on surfaces with sufficient hyperbolicity. Our first result is the uniqueness of equilibrium states for Hölder continuous potentials and the geometric potential for products of geodesic flows of rank...
geodesic flow, conjugate points, hyberbolic dynamics, measure of maximal entropy, thermodynamic formalism, and equilibrium state
McEnroe, Rachel Maxine
40. The Batalin-Vilkovisky Laplacian from Homological Perturbation Theory
The BV Laplacian Δ, first introduced by Batalin and Vilkovisky, is a second-order differential operator that appears in the quantum master equation for quantizing gauge theories. The geometric framework for the BV formalism was later recognized by Schwarz as the setting of odd symplectic geometry and Khudaverdian showed that Δ...
Physics and Mathematics
Kumar, Nilay
41. Multi-Scale Imaging of Nanomaterial-Tissue Interactions
Nanomaterials are increasingly incorporated in modern day life, from the biogenic viruses that cause pandemics and the mineral crystallites embedded alongside collagen in our bones, to the anthropogenic nanomaterials that are small but powerful components of sunscreen and paint, swimming pool algaecides and wound dressings, cancer treatments, bicycle frames, and...
Nanoscience and Materials Science
DiCorato, Allessandra Elizabeth
42. Topics in Meta-analysis with Few Studies
This dissertation consists of three papers on methods for meta-analysis with few studies. These papers are concerned with proper inference from meta-analysis models that combine data from a small number of studies using fixed and random-effects models. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to meta-analysis, the motivation for this work and...
Zejnullahi, Rrita
43. Numerical Simulation of Irradiation Induced Defects in Polycrystalline Solids
A framework is developed that models point defect diffusion and interaction with pre-existing microstructures during irradiation, including defect-defect interactions and defect sinks. This framework uses a modified diffusion potential that includes not only defect concentration, but also intrinsic stresses from the pre-existing microstructure. Various microstructures are studied in {Fe} by...
Point defects, Radiation, Triple junctions, Voids, Crack tip, and Grain boundaries
Nuclear engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Materials Science
Zarnas, Patrick
44. Inhibitory Effects of the MNK1/2 Inhibitor Tomivosertib in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
The treatment of AML remains to be a challenge due to the high rates of resistance and relapse experienced by patients after initial therapy. The MAPK-interacting kinases 1 and 2 (MNK1/2) have generated increasing interest as therapeutic targets for AML due to their critical role in malignant hematopoietic transformation via...
Biology, Molecular biology, and Biochemistry
Suarez Palacios, Milagros Melanie
45. The Ties That Bind Us to Earth: Neighborhoods and Interpersonal Relationships of Black Southern Marylanders, 1850-1910
This dissertation explores lasting familial relationships and friendships among southern African Americans from the antebellum years to the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on southern Maryland, the dissertation shows how free and enslaved African Americans cultivated familial and non-familial relationships in towns and rural neighborhoods. Over the course of...
African American Studies and Black Studies
History, Black history, and American history
Rosado, Ana
46. Measurement of the W Boson Branching Fractions in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV Center-of-mass Energy with the CMS Experiment
The leptonic and inclusive hadronic decay branching fractions of the W boson are studied using 35.9 $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data collected at $\sqrt{s}=13~TeV$ during the 2016 run of the CMS experiment. Events characterized by the production of pairs of W bosons from \ttbar and \tW processes are selected. Multiple...
lepton flavor universality, W boson branching fraction, and CMS
Particle physics and Physics
Chen, Ziheng
47. Using automatic differentiation for coherent diffractive imaging applications
Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) methods are techniques that image a sample by illuminating it with a coherent beam and recording the intensity diffraction pattern produced by the wavefront outgoing from the sample. These are lensless methods that are not limited in resolution by the physical characteristics of an objective lens,...
Applied physics and Physics
Kandel, Saugat
48. Tailoring Modular Spherical Nucleic Acids for DNA and RNA Delivery
Nucleic acids such as DNA or RNA of various lengths and structures have a wide scope of functions as therapeutic entities compared to conventional drugs. For instance, native and modified forms of nucleic acids can be used for gene silencing, genome editing, gene replacement, immune system modulation, and theranostics. While...
lipids, RNA, drug delivery, nanoparticles, and DNA
Sinegra, Andrew
49. The Greener Inhumanity of Renaissance Pastoral: A Posthumanist Reading of the Bucolic Literature of Early Modern England and Italy
In a new analysis of Renaissance pastoral that draws on ecocriticism, queer theory, and a historicist approach, this dissertation finds a green and inhuman world that opposes the modern view that humans differ significantly from, and enjoy a right of dominion over, nonhuman species and the environment. Through readings of...
posthumanism, Machiavelli, pastoral, nature, Shakespeare, and ecocriticism
Comparative literature, Italian literature, and English literature
Pederson, Alicia Sands
50. A Normative Lay Theory of Risk-taking
How do people make meaning of risk-taking? The present dissertation proposes a normative lay theory of risk-taking. The proposed model promotes the following core ideas: (a) Risk-taking is generally an ambiguous construct and requires the illumination of at least some dimensional parameters to disambiguate the risk behavior and risk-taker; (b)...
attitudes, responsible, lay theory, perceptions, reckless, and risk-taking
Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, and Psychology
Wages, James Ellis
51. Electrodynamics of particles in bulk fluid and on an interface
The focus on this thesis is on the dynamics of colloidal particles in an applied electric field in a uniform bulk fluid and on a fluid-fluid interface. In a bulk fluid, the dynamics of an isolated particle, one pair, and a cluster of particles under an applied nonuniform electric field...
collective motion, electrorotation, and colloidal particle
Fluid mechanics and Applied mathematics
Hu, Yi
52. Decentralized Persistent Shape Formation in Large-Scale Homogeneous Robotic Swarms
This research looks at the robotic shape formation problem, which is one of the fundamental problems in robotic swarm systems. Here, the task is to move a group of robots to form a user-specified shape. In this dissertation, the task of shape formation is divided to four problems: (i) using...
distributed systems, scheduling and planning, algorithms, sensor networks, and swarm systems
Computer science, Computer engineering, and Robotics
wang, hanlin
53. Investigating the Structure of Molybdenum Oxides and Sulfides for Catalytic Dehydrogenation
Molybdenum oxides and sulfides are earth-abundant materials known to catalyze a wide array of reactions, including dehydrogenation, hydrotreating, and higher alcohols synthesis. In particular, alkane and alcohol dehydrogenation are of interest given recent shifts in the energy landscape away from traditional petroleum feedstocks and towards natural gas and renewable energy...
heterogeneous catalysis, molybdenum, metal sulfides, metal oxides, and alkane dehydrogenation
Cheng, Emily
54. Associations between Empathy Development and Collective Music Making with Free Improvisation and Music Notation for Adolescent Musicians
The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the impact that small ensemble free improvisation experiences had on dispositional empathy development when compared with other forms of collective music making; and (2) to examine the relationship between co-performing musicians' empathy levels and their performance achievement in small ensembles using...
Free Improvisation, Collective Music Making, Performance Achievement, and Empathy Development
Schmidt, Casey
55. Optical Stark shifts of hybrid light-matter states in two-dimensional semiconductors
Light provides a high-speed and coherent medium for controlling quantum states. In semiconductors, coherent optical effects have been used extensively to lift spin degeneracy on ultrafast timescales and demonstrate high-fidelity control of quantum spin states. Extending this approach to novel pseudospins in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), in this thesis...
Polariton, Stark effect, ultrafast optics, valley, two-dimensional materials, and exciton
Condensed matter physics, Applied physics, and Optics
LaMountain, Trevor
56. Changes in Motor Unit Firing Patterns as a Function of Age, Muscle, and Following a Unilateral Brain Injury: Ionotropic and Metabotropic Effects
Coordinated movement relies on the precise and controlled activation of populations of motor units, which convert the commands of the nervous system into muscle forces. Motor unit firing patterns are often nonlinear and generated through the response to a combination of ionotropic excitatory and inhibitory commands, as well as metabotropic...
Aging, Delta-F, Stroke, Persistent Inward Currents, Motor Unit, and Motoneuron
Neurosciences and Biomedical engineering
Hassan, Altamash Shamsul
57. Anxious to Play: Social and Emotional Forces that Restrict Women's Video Game Skill Development
Competitive gaming, or esports, is a high-skill endeavor embedded in a highly gendered social context. Using multiple methodological approaches, this dissertation argues that gender-gaming inequality is a result of changeable stereotypes that impact women throughout their lives. Specifically, gender-gaming stereotypes limit women's initial access to gaming, discourage their continued interest...
esports, expertise, learning, performance, stereotypes, and video games
Social psychology and Psychology
Nolla, Kyle
58. Surface Chemistry of Organic Molecules in Atmospheric and Indoor Environments Investigated by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
This work examines important heterogeneous processes of organic molecules on surfaces, in the contexts of atmospheric and indoor environments. In large forest ecosystems, biogenic secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) constitute a dominant fraction of organic particulate matter in the atmosphere. The formation of SOAs starts from the emission of volatile organic...
Physical chemistry, Environmental science, and Chemistry
Liu, Yangdongling
59. Physics-Informed Data-Driven Prediction and Design in Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Manufacturing processes are known for their intricacies in changing material shapes and properties. New generations of manufacturing technologies, known as flexible manufacturing, are moving toward design freedom, which allows producing parts with optimized geometries and high customizations at an affordable cost even for low-volume productions. Two prominent flexible manufacturing processes...
Reinforcement Learning, Neural Network, Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing, and Artificial Intelligence
Computer science, Mechanical engineering, and Computational physics
Mozaffar, Mojtaba
60. The Gamma Conjecture for Local Mirror Symmetry: a Tropical Approach via the Gross-Siebert Program
In this thesis, we study the homological mirror symmetry for the Gross-Siebert program of local mirror symmetry. We construct a pair of mirror objects by lifting a tropical curve in the integral tropical manifold of the Gross-Siebert program. Furthermore, we evaluate the central charges of the mirror objects and show...
Wang, Junxiao
61. Engineering Low-Dimensional Layered Structures
The highly flexible nature of 2D materials has led to them becoming fundamental building blocks for achieving novel device physics and potential breakthroughs in practical technologies. 2D layers can be interfaced in a wide array of methods with themselves, other 2D layered materials, or materials of entirely different type or...
Monolayer, Exciton, Low-Dimensional, Heterojunction, Two-Dimensional, and Heterostructure
Condensed matter physics, Optics, and Materials Science
Stanev, Teodor Kosev
62. Museum Practitioners' Beliefs and Assumptions about Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity; Minoritized Learners' Sensemaking; and Their Institutional Context
This dissertation aims to: 1) characterize the range of beliefs museum practitioners have about racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity; 2) their understanding of the role of race, culture, and ethnicity in minoritized learners' sensemaking; and 3) the areas of tension and symmetry between practitioners' values and their perception of their...
Museum, Positioning Theory, Informal Learning, Science, Diversity, and Equity
Education, Teacher education, and Museum studies
Villanosa, Krystal
63. The Muscle-Powered Empire Organic Transport in Japan and Its Colonies, 1850 – 1930
This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850-1930. Invented in Tokyo in 1870, rickshaws proliferated across Asia and became a symbol of modern...
History, Asian history, and Asian studies
Li, Youjia
64. Genetic Mechanisms of Benzimidazole Resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
Parasitic nematode infections are common in both humans and livestock populations around the globe. In humans, these infections cause illness which can be debilitating. In livestock, parasitic nematode infections result in poor animal health and wellbeing as well as decreases in the yield of these animals. The decrease in yield...
Parasites, C. elegans, Anthelmintics, and beta-tubulin
Dilks, Clayton Matthew
65. Leading Teams in the Digital Age: Team Technology Adaptation in Human-Agent Teams
This dissertation imagines the near future of teamwork, when AI agents will join teams,interacting, collaborating, and completing tasks as a team member. Broadly, I seek to answer the questions: how do humans integrate a new AI teammate onto their team, and how does the AI teammate's function influence this integration...
team, team cognition, AI teammate, and team technology adaptation
Communication and Organizational behavior
Larson, Lindsay Elizabeth
66. A Victorian Disposition: Emotional Susceptibility in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
This dissertation argues that the nineteenth-century construction of "emotional susceptibility" turned a much-derided quirk of psychology—the long retention of one's earliest affective impressions—into a basis for radical interventions into thinking about attachment, ethics, and the Victorian novel. I focus in particular on the work of Henry Mackenzie, Charlotte Brontë, George...
Ethics, Impressibility, Affect, and Susceptibility
Cogswell, Clay
67. Multiscale in vivo Muscle Architecture in the Upper Limb: A Validation and Implementation of Novel Imaging Techniques for Quantification of Muscle Function and Plasticity
A major distinction among different skeletal muscles in the human body is the number, size, and arrangement of its cells, referred to as a muscle's architecture. Muscle architecture is indicative of a muscle's ability to contract and produce force and, like muscle function, is plastic. While neuromuscular plasticity is the...
Sarcomere, In vivo, Imaging, Muscle, and Wrist
Bioengineering and Biomechanics
Adkins, Amy
68. Geometric limits of Julia sets of unicritical polynomials under degree growth
In this thesis we study the geometric limits under degree growth of Julia sets and filled Julia sets for complex polynomials with a unique critical point at $z = 0$. Specifically, for $c \in \mathbb{S}^1$, we are interested in the limit of the associated sequence of Julia sets $J(f_{n,c})$ in...
Jensen, Signe Emalia
69. Synthesis and Characterization of Low-Dimensional Materials for Dynamic Reconfigurability in Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures
This thesis describes the synthesis and photophysical characterization of low-dimensionalmaterials—including thin-film semiconductors, colloidal quantum dots, and molecules—with the broader motivation of integrating them into mixed-dimensional heterostructures with novel responses to external stimuli. Due to their high surface area to volume ratio and incomplete dielectric screening, mixed-dimensional heterostructures have high sensitivity...
Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science
Olding, Jack Nicklaus
70. Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics and Combustion Processed Amorphous Metal Oxides as Unconventional Materials for Thin-Film Transistors
The demand for low cost, unconventional electronics requires new materials with unique characteristics that the traditionally used silicon-based technologies cannot provide. Metal oxide semiconductors, such has amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO), have made impressive strides as alternatives to amorphous silicon for electronics applications. However, to achieve the full potential...
Combustion processing, Thin-film transistor, Metal Oxides, and SANDs
Chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, and Materials Science
Stallings, Katie Lynn
71. Complex Exposures to Social Determinants of Health through Young Adulthood and Associations with Mid-life Cardiovascular Health and Events: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study
In the U.S., approximately 840,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease (CVD) each year, and it is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The prevalence of CVD is on the rise and widespread disparities in CVD exist across economic, racial, and ethnic groups. In order to address the rising...
informatics, cardiovascular health , social determinants of health, machine learning, and data science
Public health and Health sciences
Zimmerman, Lindsay
72. Three Essays on Religious Identity and the Cultural Authority of Science
Broadly speaking, this dissertation project seeks to address the following question: how do religious people think about the cultural authority of science, and to what extent does this vary across different contexts? Despite the predictions of classical modernization theorists, religious institutions continue to significantly shape public discourse—and rule-making—in the vast...
Religious Identity, Comparative Sociology, Science and Technology, and Public Opinion
Lee, John J.
73. Programming Assembly Pathways of Proteins Using DNA
The building blocks of life are proteins. These incredible nanostructures are responsible for forming the diverse infrastructure of living systems and for performing countless biological functions. In Nature, these materials and systems achieve structural complexity and function through highly regulated and controlled assembly of protein building blocks, driven by specific...
Supramolecular , Proteins, Self-assembly, and Hierarchical
Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Hayes, Oliver George
74. Calling on Courage: The Use of a Courage Intervention to Increase Engagement in Exposure for Specific Fears
Despite its demonstrated effectiveness, exposure therapy – repeatedly approaching a fear/anxiety trigger – is not widely used in the treatment of anxiety disorders. This may be due to its image as an aversive (and even harmful) approach to treatment and its reduced rates of compliance among patients. However, if exposure...
exposure, courage, therapy, fear, and anxiety
Eix, Amanda Kramer
75. Dependence as Independence, Instability as Immaturity: The Organizational Contradictions of Young Adult Homeless Centers Serving LGBTQ+ Clients
Although research has shown LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in counts of homeless youth, scholars have yet to investigate whether this trend exists among adults experiencing homelessness. This dissertation uses an organizational analysis of four Chicago homeless centers that cater to young adults to argue that most LGBTQ+ youth are not...
poverty, organizations, governance, sexuality, young adults, and homelessness
Sociology, Public policy, and LGBTQ studies
Lovell, Erik Stephen
76. Mapping Intimacies: Black Queer Women in Chicago's Urban-Digital Sphere
Theoretical and empirical inquiries into queer geographies have focused primarily on how white gay subjects navigate urban landscapes. Consequently, there has been little empirical work that examines (1) queer placemaking within Black and brown urban spaces; (2) placemaking among queer women of color; and (3) the relationship and interplay between...
black feminism, queer studies, digital ethnography, black queer studies, sexuality, and urban ethnography
Sociology and Gender studies
Adams-Santos, Dominique
77. Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications
Metal-organic frameworks are crystalline, nanoporous materials formed by metal nodes connected by organic ligands. MOFs represent an exciting approach to materials design where a material with desired properties can be made by choosing the compatible nodes, linkers and topologies independently. MOFs are highly porous and have high surface areas...
zeolitic imidazolate framework, n-alkanes, metal-organic frameworks, molecular simulations, and adsorption
Gopalan, Arun
78. Forms Follows Action: Performance in/against the City in New York and Los Angeles (1970-1985)
This critical/theoretical history of performance art investigates the relationship between the body of the artist and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985, with specific attention to how performance art resists, renegotiates, and responds to architectural functionalism. Using performance studies as...
Movement, Los Angeles, Kinesthetic, New York City, Built environment, and Performance Art
Performing arts, Art history, and Architecture
Morelli, Didier
79. Role of the Type I IFN Response in Age-dependent Pathogenesis of HSV Encephalitis
Newborns are particularly susceptible to severe forms of herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1) infection including encephalitis and multisystemic disseminated disease. The underlying age-dependent differences in the immune response that explain this increased susceptibility relative to the adult population remain largely understudied. Evidence from animal studies and genetic studies in...
HSV, Interferon Response, Neonatal Immunity, and Encephalitis
Giraldo Perez, Daniel
80. Homogeneous Organocalcium and Organolanthanide Catalysis for the Formation of C–N Bonds and Selective C–O Bond Cleavage
Among the most valuable applications of organometallic chemistry is its implementation in the field of catalysis. Many industrial processes rely heavily on catalysis, employing organometallic complexes in the production of commodity chemicals, fine chemicals, materials, and even in the discovery and development of pharmaceuticals. Through decades of intense study, homogeneous...
organolanthanide, homogeneous, catalysis, organic synthesis, rare earth, and organocalcium
Dicken, Rachel Dowrey
81. 'The Indians Say': Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of North America, 1722 to 1848
"'The Indians Say': Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of North America, 1722 to 1848" examines the issue of evidence and credibility within natural history by following the circulation of Indigenous testimony through Anglophone networks of scientific knowledge production. By merging the history of science with Native American and Indigenous...
natural history, history of science , settler colonialism , and testimony
Native American studies and American history
Jones, Emma Bennett
82. Transient Absorption Microscopy Study of Excited-State Dynamics and the Structural Origins in Metal Halide Perovskites
Metal halide perovskites have recently emerged as one of the most promising active layers in solar cells for their high power conversion efficiency (>25%) and ease of synthesis and deposition. Spatial heterogeneity is inevitable with current fabrication methods for both monocrystalline and polycrystalline perovskite thin films and crystals. The morphology-dependent...
Trap state, Metal halide perovskites, Grain Boundary, Carrier cooling, Transient absorption microscopy, and Global analysis
Jiang, Xinyi
83. Control of Light-Induced Electronic Behavior at Interfaces of Hybrid Nanomaterials
This dissertation explores ways to utilize physical parameters at the nanoscale interface to control the properties of mixed-dimensional heterojunctions (MDHJs). MDHJs combine the desirable properties of different classes of low-dimensional nanomaterials (materials that are quantum confined in at least one dimension). While MDHJs have achieved superlative performance for a variety...
nanomaterials, photophysics, time-resolved spectroscopy, mixed-dimensional, and low-dimensional
Physical chemistry, Nanoscience, and Materials Science
Padgaonkar, Suyog
84. The effects of hybrid histidine kinase BinK on <i>Vibrio fischeri</i> biofilm formation and host colonization
Symbiotic relationships involve a life-long interaction between host and bacteria, and there is much we do not understand about how these interactions are developed and maintained. During the horizontal recruitment of beneficial bacteria by hosts, a complex set of molecular signals and communication ensures specificity. On the bacterial side, these...
two-component signaling systems, Vibrio fischeri, symbiosis, and biofilm
Ludvik, Denise Alberta
85. Novel Functions of Mitochondria-Lysosome Contact Sites in Health and Neurological Disease
Inter-organelle contact sites have become increasingly appreciated as important regulators of cellular homeostasis, and disruption of inter-organelle contact site dynamics and function has been observed in various pathologies. Recently, inter-organelle contact sites between mitochondria and lysosomes were discovered, offering a new mechanism by which these two organelles may directly interact,...
Lysosome, Contact Sites, Imaging, Mitochondria, Neurological Disease, and Calcium
Biology, Neurosciences, and Medicine
Peng, Wesley J
86. Causal Heterogeneity in Social Essentialism: Shared Experiences and Shared Genes
We structure our lives around social groups – belonging to them and thinking about them. In this dissertation, I develop a new stereotype content measure to assess the attributes associated with groups in America today, propose and support a theory of sociocultural essentialism, and explore the strategic activation of sociocultural...
Social Groups, Stereotype Content, Entitativity, Common Fate, Marginalization, and Essentialism
Gallagher, Natalie McDaniel
87. Quantum-Chemical Screening of Redox-Active Metal–Organic Frameworks
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline materials composed of metal nodes connected by organic linkers. Due to their high degree of synthetic tunability, MOFs have been considered for a wide range of applications, including many that rely on a change in oxidation state. While most MOFs are generally...
Computational screening, Density functional theory, Metal-organic framework, and Machine learning
Rosen, Andrew Scott
88. Building a Rational Understanding of Novel 2D Hybrid Halide Perovskites in Bulk and in Films
Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid halide perovskites have been the response to their exciting but woefully unstable 3D counterparts. These 2D perovskites have been shown to have respectable stabilities as photovoltaic absorbers, yet they lag behind the 3D perovskites in terms of efficiency. With the need to catch up to the efficiencies...
films, mechanisms, GIWAXS, materials, perovskites, and solar cells
Hoffman, Justin Michael
89. Signatures of the Invisible: New Considerations for Xenon Dark Matter Searches
The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the largest open questions in modern physics despite the many searches for particle dark matter around the world. The search for dark matter particles with masses above 5 GeV/$c^2$ is led by the dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber (LXe-TPC) detector technology which...
dark matter, backgrounds, xenon, and instrumentation
Temples, Dylan Jason
90. Estimation of persistent inward currents in the human ankle flexor and extensor muscles
Movement is achieved by combining synaptic inputs from various sources and activating motor unit populations. Motor units are the quantal elements of motor control which act as a neuromechanical transducer that converts sensory inputs into motor output. Because of the tight neuromuscular junctions between motoneuron axon terminals and a large...
Motor Units, Delta-F, EMG, PICs, and Human Motor Control
Kim, Edward
91. Human NKG2D Ligand Regulation of NK Cell Functions and Metabolism: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutics
Natural Killer (NK) cell dysfunction is associated with poorer clinical outcome in cancer patients. What regulates NK cell dysfunction in tumor microenvironment is not well understood. NKG2D/NKG2DL pathway is very well recognized as an effective immune axis in tumor immunosurveillance. Abundant evidence from experimental preclinical animal models as well as...
Biology, Cellular biology, and Immunology
Dhar, Payal
92. A Stability-Based Approach to Post-Stroke Gait Training
Humans have a remarkable ability to create stable walking patterns that can resist and recover from perturbations. Unfortunately, this ability is substantially impaired after a stroke, limiting mobility and contributing to a high fall rate. To facilitate gait training during post-stroke rehabilitation, clinicians often incorporate body-weight support (BWS) systems that...
Gait, Stability, Stroke, and Biomechanics
Physical therapy, Biomedical engineering, and Biomechanics
Dragunas, Andrew
93. Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Biomaterials Across Length Scales; Morphology, Chirality, and Interactions.
Soft materials in nature are formed through programmed self-assembly of biomolecules to create complex architectures and optimized physical properties. It is therefore a key challenge in biomaterials science and engineering to understand the principles that govern the structure and properties of such materials, and the interactions between their different components....
Biomedical engineering and Materials Science
Sangji, Mohammad Hussain
94. Economics of Service Operations: Information, Simplified Controls and Omnichannel Services
In this dissertation we consider how simple operational levers affect a firm's revenue and consumer surplus. In particular, we focus on information disclosure as an useful control for omnichannel services.In the first chapter we consider a revenue-maximizing service firm that caters to price and delay-sensitive customers. The firm offers a...
Pricing in Queuing Systems, Strategic Queuing, Service Operations, Information Disclosure, Omnichannel Services, and Digital Innovation
Operations research and Management
Ghosh, Abhishek
95. Hobbes Unbound
This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes's oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes's private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
Liberty, Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, Hobbes, Theology, and Religion
History, Philosophy, and Political science
Day, Andrew
96. Soviet Immigrants Perspective on Mental Health and the Impact of Stigma
The purpose of this research project was to highlight that there are different perspectives on mental health that stem from various experiences. All of these views should be valued and not discriminated against for any reason other than that they are different. As a child of Soviet Immigrants, I quickly...
Shteynberg, Emily
97. Prohibited Pleasures: Female Literacy, Sex and Adultery in Turn-of-the-Century Brazilian Fiction
In this dissertation I examine the entanglement between female literacy and female sexuality in nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. I investigate the ways in which male authors used literature as a mechanism for policing female sexuality and stabilizing the traditional family. I argue that nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction exhibits a recurring preoccupation with...
José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Epistolary, Marriage, and Crime of passion
Women's studies, Comparative literature, and Latin American literature
Vezzani, Cintia Kozonoi
98. High-density Lipoprotein Mimetic Nanoparticles: Roles in Therapy and Probing Intercellular Communication
Bio-inspired materials have a distinct advantage over other materials by virtue of their mimicry of nature's own products, which have been subjected to the inimitable tests of time and evolutionary pressure. Here we have taken instruction from natural nanostructures that are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom, namely high-density lipoproteins (HDL)....
self-assembly, prostate cancer, exosomes, nanoparticles, and high-density lipoproteins
Henrich, Stephen E.
99. Essays on Economic Design
I examine economic design issues in the realm of dynamic organ allocation for transplantation and behavioral market design/contract theory. The second and third chapters focus on two issues in the design of the U.S. deceased-donor organ allocation system, which represents the majority of transplants performed in the U.S. In contrast...
Munoz-Rodriguez, Edwin
100. Developments in Modeling and Analysis of Interferometric Spectroscopic Imaging
Optical microscopy is one of the most ubiquitous tools for functional imaging of biological phenomena. While relatively non-destructive to living organisms, light microscopy's spatial resolution is diffraction limited, restricting the minimum resolvable features. On the other hand, high resolution techniques such as electron microscopy or STORM, have several orders of...
Eid, Aya