Ham, Maddalena(Northern Illinois University, 2000)
Marguerite de Navarre wrote her collection of stories, L'Heptameron, following the model of Boccaccio's Decameron. The format is therefore the same in the two works: a group of storytellers recount tales within the context ...
Questa è la breve storia , forse un poco romanzata, del gatto che, se non
forse il più citato, è di sicuro il più bistrattato della storia della fisica e della
filosofia: il gatto di Schrödinger.
Katz, Eliakim; Stark, Oded(University of Chicago Press, 1986)
In this paper we question the pioneering work of Todaro, which states that rural-to-urban labor migration in less developed countries (LDCs) is an individual response to a higher urban expected income. We demonstrate that ...
This thesis focuses on the uniqueness of Lac du Flambeau, a Native American reservation located in northern Wisconsin. Interviews, participant observation, and secondary sources were utilized to examine three aspects of ...
Logan, Gabriel S.(Northern Illinois University, 2007)
This examination of the historical development of Chicago soccer from 1890 to 1939 fills a gap in the existing literature on American sport history. This time period marks the beginning of Chicago’s first organized soccer ...
Breastfeeding seems to have had upward and downward trends in popularity. The reason why women choose to breastfeed their babies can be affected by many factors. The medical profession appears to understand that breastfeeding ...
Batch Processing Machines (BPMs) are commonly used in electronics manufacturing, semi-conductor manufacturing, and metal-working - to name a few. Scheduling these machines are not an easy task; practical considerations and ...
Keenan, Colin N.(Northern Illinois University, 1992)
An attempt was made to find a method for generating a useful analytic expression for the Laplace or inverse Laplace transform of a given set of data. The method attempted involved first fitting the data to Laguerre functions. ...
Miner, James Jon(Northern Illinois University, 1989)
During winters 1987-88 and 1988-89, the Lake Michigan icefoot complex at Wilmette, Illinois, was monitored to determine its conditions of formation and destruction, and to determine the relative importance of those factors. ...
This three-part article examines the separate and combined legacies of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice John Paul Stevens in the area of regulatory takings jurisprudence as applied to land use controls. Part ...
Elliott, Mary A.(Northern Illinois University, 1997)
Land use planning maps are being created for overlapping areas by various levels of the land use management hierarchy. This hierarchical nature creates an environment of conflict in which rival municipalities on one level ...
The 1980s saw the "canon wars" in US university English departments as some scholars challenged the dominance of traditional texts and recommended teaching more works by women and minorities. In Myanmar, changes to the ...
This thesis is an historical analysis of the development of language education in Ukraine. It is designed to show the significance of language in the development of a new national identity. Ukraine was deprived of sovereignty ...
Language impairments can have a profound impact on future reading skills. When detected early, intervention from speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and reading teachers, can lessen the severity of literacy impairments. ...
Laseman, Jennifer L.(Northern Illinois University, 1996)
The courtroom has long been deemed a place where ’’men's language’’ thrives. It is my contention that there are many positive aspects to the use of "women's language" in the courtroom. In my thesis I will demonstrate the ...
Burma’s first well known welfare plan was entitled Pyidawtha or
Happy Land, and it was launched in 1952. In vernacular terms, the literal meaning
of Pyidawtha is ‘Prosperous Royal Country’. The government’s attempt ...