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Wage Change and the Quit Behavior of Workers: Implications for Efficiency Wage Theory
(Southern Economic Association, 1994-07) -
Wage Theft: Pilfering Paychecks, One Lunch at a Time
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2017-11)The United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, is charged with enforcing the payment of minimum wage and overtime to employees. A common problem occurs when an employee performs work during their unpaid ... -
Walking their own path : a life course analysis of baby boom women's marital decisions
(Northern Illinois University, 1992)This study sought to examine the influence of birth cohort, structural characteristics of the family, childhood religious teachings, and gender-role modelling on adult gender-role attitudes and the timing of marital ... -
Walking to the creek
(Northern Illinois University, 1984)The poems in this collection center thematically around a pasture creek in Illinois. The creek, as an image, is symbolic of the natural world, and in the poems is often used as a point of contrast to the world of human ... -
The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan
(positions: east asia cultures critique, 1998)Discusses the fate of jazz in wartime Japan, emphasizing not just the official ban on the music, but the ways that jazz musicians found ways to make the idiom serve national policy. -
The Warburg Effect and Glutamine: Targeting the Deregulation of Metabolism in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells
(Northern Illinois University, 2016)Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer in the world. Effective therapy options are limited; sorafenib is currently the only FDA-approved medication for the disease. In order improve clinical ... -
Warranty policies beneficial to both consumer and producer
(Northern Illinois University, 1991)This study designs a credible tool which can be used in the situations where warranty policies must be implemented. This tool provides a mechanism for sharing benefits among consumers and producers in price-warranty ... -
Watching the Watchmen: The People’s Attempt to Hold On-Duty Law Enforcement Officers Accountable for Misconduct and the Illinois Law that Stands in Their Way
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2012-04)In the days when police brutality and public official corruption pump through the veins of society as a fermenting virus, a critical analysis of a controversial law curtailing efforts to intensify public awareness of ... -
A watershed analysis of the 1993 midwestern flood
(Northern Illinois University, 1994)The floods which occurred throughout the Midwest and along the upper Mississippi River during the summer of 1993 were the greatest of recorded history within the Midwest region. This study focused upon the extreme stream ... -
Wave-optics modeling of the optical-transport line for passive optical stochastic cooling
(2017-12-20)Optical stochastic cooling (OSC) is expected to enable fast cooling of dense particle beams. Transition from microwave to optical frequencies enables an achievement of stochastic cooling rates which are orders of magnitude ... -
Wavelet tree structure-based image compression
(Northern Illinois University, 1998)This paper presents an algorithm for image compression which involves tree structure coding (TSC) of wavelet coefficients resulting from discrete wavelet transform (DWT), successive approximation quantization, and entropy ... -
Wavelet-based acoustic echo cancellation
(Northern Illinois University, 1996)Acoustic echo cancellers are necessary for communication systems such as teleconferencing and full-duplex phone in order to reduce echoes which impair the quality of communication. In this paper we are focusing on the ... -
Wavelet-based image compression by successive vector quantization
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Wavelet-based image enhancement
(Northern Illinois University, 1998)This thesis proposes the novel wavelet-based digital image denoising methods to solve the problems which are difficult for the best known two-dimension adaptive Wiener filtering technique. Because the two-dimension Wiener ... -
We may have hired Dr. Jekyll, but we ended up with Mr. Hyde
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Weaning practices of Indochinese refugee infants
(Northern Illinois University, 1987)The purpose of this study was to investigate the weaning practices of Indochinese refugees. Maternal food habits and cultural factors affecting the methods used in infant weaning were also’explored. Infant physical status ... -
Wear of tools used in sheet metal stamping
(Northern Illinois University, 2018-12-09)Stamping is an operation that is widely used in the manufacturing industry to produce products in high volume and in a continuous cycle. This operation can be performed by pressing and drawing. The process of sheet metal ... -
Weaving the tapestry of an unfinished woman : Colette's La Naissance du jour
(Northern Illinois University, 1996)This study analyzed Colette's creation of an ideal self in the novel La Naissance du iour. In particular, I examined how Colette used her writing to recreate her past and to foresee her future. In doing so, she created a ... -
Web Design Principles
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)A website that explores the principles of web design to assist amateur web designers in creating professional looking websites without needing extensive design experience. Utilizing skills obtained in Interactive Media ... -
A web of aliases : birds in the art of Joseph Cornell
(Northern Illinois University, 1997)My thesis examines some of the possible symbolic meaning attached to bird images in the box constructions and collages of American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). Bird images, though figuring prominently in Cornell's ...
