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Nachusa Grasslands : a benefit-cost analysis, using the contingent valuation method
(Northern Illinois University, 1998)The purpose of this research paper is to help policy-makers compare environmental interests to non-environmental interests. It involves calculating use and non-use values for a preserve—Nachusa Grasslands. Use values consist ... -
The Nanny Tax
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)The number if household employees has increased over a ten year time period, but the compliance rate for household employment tax filings has decreased. This study explores different explanations for non-compliance of ... -
Napoleon's dilemma
(Northern Illinois University, 1989)This paper examines how Napoleon Bonaparte implemented a nationalized secular educational plan in post-Revolutlonary and post-Dlrectory France. His goal was to create economic and political stability for the continued ... -
Narrative delivery of psychoeducation : decreasing phobic symptoms through narrative interference
(Northern Illinois University, 2007)This dissertation research compared the efficacy of two delivery methods of psychoeducation for spider phobia. Handout Delivery (HD) presented the psychoeducation explicitly, so participants were aware their phobias were ... -
Narrative themes and patterns in shapeshifter folktales : the wereanimal as exemplar of a universal tale type
(Northern Illinois University, 1996)This thesis examines the possibility that shapeshifter folktales of the "wereanimal" type belong to a universal tale type. Universal similarities are exposed through the utilization of standard folklore methodology which ... -
Narrowband active noise control and equalization algorithms
(Northern Illinois University, 1993)The research in this thesis attacks some obstacles in Active Periodic Noise Control (APNC) applications to realize new system functions or to improve system performance. Active noise equalization emerges to meet human ... -
Narrowland active noise control techniques
(Northern Illinois University, 1995)A narrowband active noise control (ANC) system with passband disturbance reduction and on-line secondary path estimation is developed in this thesis. The comb filter works parallel with the noise control filter and removes ... -
Nasality and velopharyngeal function in five deaf adults
(Northern Illinois University, 1981)The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptual and physiological nature of hypernasality in five severely to profoundly deaf adults. Cineradiographic films and tape recordings from a previous study (Stein, ... -
A Nash equilibrium approach to dynamic power control in CDMA systems
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A National Market System: An Evolution Toward Efficiency
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Native American Language Rentention: How can educators help preserve indigenous languages and better accommodate Native Americans?
(Northern Illinois University, 2001)English language learners (ELL) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the American classroom. Students are coming into the school systems with little to no knowledge of the English language. These ELL students thus must ... -
Native Americas : a transnational and (post)colonial study of indigenous women writers in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean
(Northern Illinois University, 2015)In the current age of globalization, scholars have become interested in literary transnationalism, but the implications of transnationalism for American Indian studies have yet to be adequately explored. Although some ... -
The nature of growing season frosts : a case study in Northern Illinois
(Northern Illinois University, 1984)This study was motivated by the belief that radiation frosts are generally the last occurrences in spring and the first in fall. The type of first and last frost occurrences were determined for the northern Illinois area ... -
The nature of the classic Maya collapse at Copán, Honduras
(Northern Illinois University, 1995)The question of the Classic Maya collapse has been the focus of research throughout the Southern Maya Lowlands, and Copan is no exception. A series of different views have been expressed since Sylvanus Morley first addressed ... -
Navigate, Balance, and Retain
(2014)"Navigate, Balance, and Retain: Developing Success in Mid-Career For Female STEM Faculty" is a two-year collaboration between NIU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and College of Engineering. We are examining factors ... -
Navigator staff women and NavPress Bible studies : a telephone survey on opinions and needs
(Northern Illinois University, 1990)This research project answered the question, "What kind of Bible studies do Navigator women want to help them in ministry?" These women were members of The Navigators, a worldwide, evangelical missions organization. Their ... -
An ndh9 mitochondrially based phylogeny of the Oomycota
(Northern Illinois University, 1997)The Phylum Oomycota, a group of "lower" or microfungi, have recently been placed in the newly erected Kingdom Straminopila. In this study, a mitochondrial gene has been used to infer a molecular phylogeny for representative ... -
Neandertal noses : a descriptive and comparative analysis of the nasal morphology of the Krapina and Vindija Neandertals
(Northern Illinois University, 1999)In a recent study, Schwartz and Tattersall outlined a series of proposed autapomorphic features for the internal nasal region of Neandertals. These features include the presence of an internal nasal margin with a medial ... -
Near-lossless data compression
(Northern Illinois University, 1998)Near-lossless data compression algorithm and its applications are investigated in this thesis. Near-lossless data compression is an alternative to the lossless compression scheme. The near-lossless compression techniques ...
