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Post-Quantum Cryptology: New Constructions And Cryptanalysis, Tran Ngo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Classical cryptographic schemes, which are based on the hardness of factorization and discrete logarithmic problems, can be efficiently solved by the Shor algorithm on a quantum computer. This motivated the 2016 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) call to identify efficient and secure cryptographic schemes that are resilient to potential attacks from both classical and quantum adversaries, a field referred to as post-quantum cryptography. In this work, we focus on designing efficient post-quantum cryptographic primitives based on code-based and lattice-based assumptions, and we analyze their underlying hardness using quantum cryptanalysis. On the construction side, we propose a ring signature …

Senior Recital: Fortuna, Horn; November 16, 2025, Sam Fortuna, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the sixty-fifth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

November 16, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

1:30 p.m.

Sophomore Recital: Wyble, Double Bass And Piano; November 16, 2025, Averil Wyble

School of Music Programs

This is the sixty-eighth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

November 16, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

5:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Gussman, Horn; November 16, 2025, Carly Gussman, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the seventieth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

November 16, 2025

Sunday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Junior Recital: Franke, Bass Trombone; November 16, 2025, Connor Franke, Elton Gund, Michael Hammon, Joanie Hitt, Trevor Schafer, Griffin Gund, Riley Hobart

School of Music Programs

This is the sixty-eighth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

November 16, 2025

Sunday Evening

6:00 p.m.

Isu Faculty Brass Quintet: November 16, 2025, Anne Mcnamara, Kyterra Waters, Rachel Hockenberry, Mark Babbitt, Andy Rummel, Ben Stiers

School of Music Programs

This is the sixty-sixth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

November 16, 2026

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Graduate Collaborative Piano Recital: Li, Piano; November 16, 2025, Xinyi Li, Zeph Mussman, Yuzhuo Wang, Lucia Santore

School of Music Programs

This is the seventy-second program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

November 16, 2025

Sunday Evening

9:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Hitt, Trombone; November 16, 2025, Joanie Hitt, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the sixty fourth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

November 16, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

12:00 p.m.

Constraints On Inner Core Composition From Seismicanisotropy: The Importance Of Light Elements And Nickel, Jada Bollmeyer, Daniel A. Frost, Prajna Paramita Das

Faculty Publications

The inner core is seismically anisotropic, with PKIKP waves traversing the inner core parallel to the rotation axis faster than those in the equatorial plane. This anisotropy increases with depth into the inner core and may result from alignment of iron crystals deformed during inner core growth. Using previously calculated elastic properties of iron, we seek to determine the most likely iron-light element alloy (FeC, FeO, FeS, or FeSi). For each FeX alloy, we interpolate elastic tensors across the pressure and temperature range of the inner core and model the anisotropy resulting from flow during core growth. Lastly, we compare …

Interview No. 1812, Nora Nevarez Solis

Combined Interviews

My tía, Nora Nevarez Solis, is the youngest of five children who moved to El Paso, Texas, when she was just turning six. She is now 41 years old and has lived in El Paso since. She recently decided to move to Durango, Mexico, with her husband Sam, to live with her mom, as she explains in her interview. In the interview, she discusses growing up with a father who had a love for the fields but never pushed it on his children, quite the opposite, really. Despite a push for his children to further their educations and careers, one …

Dick Fallon: A Northwestern Tribute, James E. Pfander

Northwestern University Law Review

Like so many others—friends, family, former students, colleagues, and practically everyone who knew him well—I was shattered by the news of Dick Fallon’s death. Dick and I had grown close over the years in a friendship that developed slowly and evolved into one we came to treasure. He had a Midwestern sensibility: soft-spoken, humble to a fault, kind-hearted, far-sighted, reflective, family-oriented, keen to put folks at ease and to downplay his own accomplishments. (His example forces me to admit that perhaps New Englanders share these virtues with Midwesterners.) But alongside his native humility, he also had a fierce commitment to …

Preventive Transparency In Third-Party Litigation Funding, Seth Katsuya Endo

Northwestern University Law Review

For years, efforts to comprehensively regulate third-party litigation funding have been unsuccessful. But bills requiring mandatory disclosure are being introduced in Congress, and the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules has finally agreed to take up the issue. By grounding the discussion of third-party litigation funding in both the broader civil procedure and professional responsibility scholarship, this Article identifies an easy, uncontroversial reform to preventively address the categorical concerns raised by the practice. The primary contribution is a doctrinal intervention, identifying how legal ethics are an integral part of federal civil procedure and then drawing out the implications for third-party litigation …

Nonparty Protective Relief In The Early Republic: Judicial Power To Annul Letters Patent, James E. Pfander, Mary E. Zakowski

Northwestern University Law Review

Much of the debate over the constitutionality of universal or nonparty protective relief in the federal court system has focused on lessons drawn from historical practice. But with its emphasis on injunctive relief, the literature has largely ignored forms of adjudication that arose outside the courts of equity and led to judgments and decrees affecting the rights of nonparties. As a result, the story of nonparty protective relief has not yet been fully told.

This Article offers a more complete story, highlighting proceedings in which federal courts issued judgments that settled a matter once and for all. Some familiar examples …

Control As A Constitutional Threshold: Moody V. Netchoice And The Case For Human Authorship, Giselle Goad

Northwestern University Law Review

The Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC left a critical question unanswered: when do algorithmic outputs on social media platforms, such as recommended posts and videos, constitute the platform’s protected speech under the First Amendment? This Note contends that courts and litigants should borrow from the First Amendment’s speech-promoting partner, copyright law, and its authorship framework when answering that question. Copyright doctrine has already begun to grapple with how much human control is required over expressive outputs generated with the aid of technology, including AI, in order for an author to receive copyright protection over those outputs. …

The Search Of A Search: Moderating Reverse Internet Keyword Warrants, Tui Rademaker

Northwestern University Law Review

Statistics show that Americans consistently turn to Google and other search engines to answer their most personal and private concerns, yet a new investigative tool risks law enforcement having vast discretion in the access of this data. With a keyword warrant, law enforcement can request from a search engine provider (usually Google) a list of probative search queries that users made over a specified time period. Such warrants are beginning to face legal challenges, and so far, courts seem reluctant to recognize the constitutional implications—instead leaving law enforcement with greater potential discretion over their use.

This Note assesses the constitutionality …

Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery, Daniel Wodak

Northwestern University Law Review

Malapportionment—electoral districts with divergent ratios of people to representation—was ruled to be unconstitutional in a widely venerated series of cases before the Warren Court. Those cases held that a principle of political equality, one person, one vote, is required by the Constitution. But what is the content of that principle? Many Justices and commentators declare that it is vague, empty, circular, or meaningless. This creates a murder mystery. Malapportionment was killed, but by what exactly? This Article seeks an answer by focusing on the Supreme Court’s commitments about the scope and strictness of one person, one vote: it …

Maurice Hubert Stans [Inducted 1960], American Accounting Association

Accounting Hall of Fame Brochures

No abstract provided.

Oculocardiac Reflex Causing Bradycardia In A Trauma Patient Following Firearm Injury, Jennifer E. Geller, Saba Daneshpooy, Sophia Block, Meera Kohli, Megan Lundy

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

The oculocardiac reflex is a vagal response to pressure on the globe or periorbital structures resulting in a reduction in heart rate greater than 20 %. Here, we describe the case of a patient who sustained extensive craniofacial and orbital trauma from a firearm injury whose otherwise unexplained bradycardia resolved following surgical decompression.

Cephalopod Consciousness On “Their Own Terms”: Who Are “They”?, Willa M. Lane, Victor Ajuwon, Nicola S. Clayton

Animal Sentience

Mather’s call to consider cephalopods’ consciousness “on their own terms” raises the question of the extent to which cephalopods can be considered a homogenous group. While coloeoid cephalopods share traits that strongly distinguish them from other molluscs and invertebrates, they show vast ecological and morphological diversity, with implications for the design of empirical investigations of consciousness. Extending Mather’s argument, we apply Birch et al.’s (2020) five-dimensional model to compare octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. This comparison shows that even within a graded rather than categorical framework, putative consciousness profiles depend on which taxa are included in discussions of “cephalopod consciousness.” …

Aubrey Alan Brown

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Microplastic Variability In Wetland Sediments And Vegetation: A Case Study Of Spruce Bluff Preserve, Fl, Juana Maria Baudrix

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Plastic pollution has become an imminent threat to the environment and human health. This study explores the occurrence, distribution, and retention mechanisms of microplastics (MPs) in Spruce Bluff Preserve, a 97-acre freshwater wetland ecosystem located along the eastern bank of the St. Lucie River in Port St. Lucie, FL. Understanding MP dynamics in transitional freshwater ecosystem is crucial for environmental management efforts given Florida’s heavily fragmented and managed landscape. This research specifically examined the relationship between wetland vegetation and MP retention in sediments across different ecological zones within the preserve. Surface sediment samples were collected along 8 transects of varying …

Accounting For The Flash Region In Breast Radiotherapy: Hu Optimization Of Virtual Bolus And Impact Of Brass Mesh On Skin, Julianna Pontoriero

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

For free-breathing volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), a major challenge in dose delivery is accounting for planning target volume (PTV) motion from respiration. To minimize PTV underdosing, this study implemented a 1.5 cm virtual bolus (VB) to create skin flash. A brass mesh bolus was also modeled in the treatment planning system to simulate its clinical impact. Different Hounsfield Units (HU) were assigned to the VB to determine the most effective value.

Five post-mastectomy breast cancer patients treated with VMAT were retrospectively analyzed. Plan normalization values, conformity indexes, and dosimetric criteria were compared to find the optimal HU for the …

Physics-Informed Deep Learning Reveals Climate-Driven Snowpack Decline And Threatens Ecological Water Availability In A Californian Snow-Fed Catchment, Surendra Maharjan, Wenzhao Li, Rejoice Thomas, Shahyar Fazli, Arshad Ansari, Hesham Morgan, Ali Elgendy, Mohamed Allali, Hesham El-Askary

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Mountain snowpack functions as a critical natural reservoir, and its gradual melt sustains streamflow for downstream ecosystems, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. Climate warming is disrupting these historical patterns by shifting precipitation from snow to rain and accelerating melt, creating an urgent need for robust ecological forecasting tools that can anticipate threats to water availability. Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) offers a powerful approach to this challenge by integrating domain knowledge into flexible data-driven models. This study evaluates and compares the performance of three hydrological modeling approaches: (i) a calibrated process-based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), (ii) a data-driven …

The Effects Of Marital Status, Partner Drinking, And Sex Differences On The Likelihood Of Remission From Alcohol Use Disorder, Christina Garasky, Alexis Duncan, Fanghong Dong, Jared Balbona, Andrey Anokhin, Emma Johnson, Arpana Agrawal, Kathleen Bucholz, Vivia Mccutcheon, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: Marriage is associated with improved health and alcohol outcomes, yet prior research has often combined diverse non-marital relationships, obscuring whether benefits are unique to marriage or a result of strong interpersonal relationships. This study examines whether marriage, compared to cohabitation, exclusive dating, or being single, is associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD) remission and whether this varies by sex and partner drinking.

METHOD: Participants were adults from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism Lifespan Study (n = 1494; 54.4% female) who met criteria for lifetime DSM-5 AUD. Multivariate logistic regression models examined the association between marital status …

Intersectional Stigma And Resilience In The Uptake Of Cervical Cancer Prevention Services In Nigeria: A Qualitative Study, Agatha Eileen Wapmuk, Titilola Abike Gbaja-Biamila, Ekenechukwu Kokelu, Juliet Iwelunmor, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women in Africa, but stigma often delays cervical cancer prevention. We explore the perceptions, enablers and nurturers through the lens of intersectional stigma in the uptake of cervical cancer prevention services in Nigeria.

METHOD: Indepth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted among women aged 30-65 years and girls aged 9-26 years in Lagos, Nigeria. Data were analysed thematically. Using the relationships and expectation domain of the PEN-3 cultural model, we identified perceptions, enablers and nurturers related to the uptake of primary and secondary cervical cancer prevention services …

The Tax Adviser, Volume 6, Number 5, May 1975, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Author Index, 12 Months Ended April 1975, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Subject Index, 12 Months Ended April 1975, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Tax Trends, E. S. Linett

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.

Washington Report: Tax Division Comments On Proposed Regulations, Joel M. Forster, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Federal Tax Division

Tax Adviser

No abstract provided.