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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 the Edge of Death: An Annotated Bibliography on Juveniles, the Mentally Ill, the Mentally Retarded and the Death Penalty
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2001-05)The death penalty is not so monolithic as it seems at first glance. A storm of debate has centered around the application of this, the harshest criminal penalty of all, to the mentally ill, mentally retarded, and juveniles. ... -
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 ... -
War & [Emotional] Peace: Death in Iraq and the Need to Constitutionalize Speech-Based lIED Claims Beyond Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-11)The protracted and ongoing war in Iraq has spawned several lawsuits in the United States based upon the tort theory of intentional infliction of emotional distress. This article focuses in depth on one of those recent ... -
War of words : can protest repression manifest organizational stigma?
(Northern Illinois University, 2018)Throughout the history of the United States, protest has provoked both social thought and backlash. Protests regarding civil rights and equality can create situations of great discomfort and varying forms of repression---but ... -
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 ... -
The Warsaw Convention: A Cat With Nine Lives Walks the Plank One More Time
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2002-05)This comment advocates elimination of the liability limits imposed under the Warsaw Convention in the event of an aviation accident. The comment first examines the history of the Warsaw Convention. Next, the comment looks ... -
Washington Irving's social attitudes revealed in Salmagundi, Knickerbocker's history, and the sketch book
(Northern Illinois University, 1959)Washington Irving, American’s first man of letters of the early 19th century, has been studied as a literary and political critic, but not as a social critic. In the introduction to his Irving bibliography, Stanley Williams ... -
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 ... -
Water quality and physical hydrogeology of the Amarapura township, Mandalay, Myanmar
(Northern Illinois University, 2017)Mandalay is a major city in central Myanmar with a high urban population that lacks a wastewater management system, a solid waste disposal process, and access to treated drinking water. The purpose of this study is to ... -
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 ...
