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Wage Change and the Quit Behavior of Workers: Implications for Efficiency Wage Theory
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"Webs of Significance": The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, New Technology, and the Democratization of History
(The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization, 2007)Lincoln/Net (http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu), a product of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University Libraries, represents a new type of historically oriented digital library resource. ... -
Weight control as a domain of achievement : identification of high need achievers
(Northern Illinois University, 1988)This study attempted to expand the traditional achievement motivation literature to include those individuals who are striving to achieve the socially defined standard of excellence in weight-related appearance. Results ... -
Weight training effects on body satisfaction of body image disturbed college women
(Northern Illinois University, 1999)This thesis assessed the effectiveness of weight training on improving the body image of body image disturbed college females. A quasi-experimental design was employed to compare the differences in body image between body ... -
Wendy Wasserstein, feminism and broadway : an uncommon combination
(Northern Illinois University, 1999)This thesis explores the feminist reaction to the works of Wendy Wasserstein. Wasserstein has had comparative success as an American female playwright in the latter half of the twentieth century. She is the first female ... -
What are Classmates Thinking When it Comes to Post-Secondary Educational Accommodations for Students with Disabilities?
(Northern Illinois University, 2016)There have been several legislative pieces (e.g., Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008) that has mandated students with disabilities are provided ...
