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Wage Change and the Quit Behavior of Workers: Implications for Efficiency Wage Theory
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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. -
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 ... -
“We Are Here to Assist All Individuals Who Need Hospice Services”: Hospices’ Perspectives on Improving Access and Inclusion for Racial/Ethnic Minorities
(SAGE, 2020-05)Background: Racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States are less likely to utilize hospice services nearing their end of life, potentially diminishing their quality of care while also increasing medical costs. ... -
We may have hired Dr. Jekyll, but we ended up with Mr. Hyde
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"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. ... -
What Do People Mean When They Say They “Had Sex”? Connecting Communication and Behavior
(Kendall Hunt, 2016)What do people mean when they say they “had sex”? The most-cited study regarding what activities are communicated as having “had sex” is now over 20 years old. This chapter provides findings from a study that replicated ... -
What is Bohmian Mechanics
(Springer Netherlands, 2004-08)Contrary to the widespread belief, the problem of the emergence of classical mechanics from quantum mechanics is still open. In spite of many results of the standard approach, it is not yet clear how to explain within ... -
What Makes Municipal Councils Effective? An Empirical Analysis of How Council Members Perceive Their Group Interactions and Processes
(SAGE, 2011)Although local government scholars acknowledge the centrality of the municipal council to overall government performance, the literature provides limited guidance regarding how those councils can improve their effectiveness. ... -
What's the Matter with Books?
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When less is more: the downside of customer knowledge sharing in new product development teams
(Springer, 2020)Despite the common belief that knowledge sharing in new product development (NPD) teams is beneficial, empirical findings are mixed. We adopt a microfoundations perspective and draw from the socio-cognitive theory to ... -
When sales and marketing align: impact on performance
(Northern Illinois University College of Business, 2015)Without sales and marketing working to produce revenue, the firm ceases to exist. Yet, given the magnitude of what’s at stake, these two functions are often at odds with one another to the detriment of performance. This ... -
When Sales and Marketing Align: Impact on Performance
(Journal of Selling, 2015)Without sales and marketing working to produce revenue, the firm ceases to exist. Yet, given the magnitude of what’s at stake, these two functions are often at odds with one another to the detriment of performance. This ... -
Where to Pray? Religious Zoning and the First Amendment
(1987)Despite emerging recognition that the normal rules do not apply when zoning affects first amendment activities, the Supreme Court has not yet definitively addressed zoning restrictions that affect the exercise of religion. ... -
White Settler / Big City: Mimicry in the Metropolis in Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
(American Association of Australian Literary Studies, 2008-12)This essay discusses Fergus Hume's 19th-century detective novel "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab." The primary focus is on the novel's setting, which features descriptions of British colonialism in Australia and New Zealand. ... -
Who invited the librarian? Studio critiques as a site of information literacy education
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-04)The ACRL Framework for information literacy for higher education, the guiding document for academic instruction librarians in North America, encourages a deep connection between information literacy and discipline-specific ... -
“Whoa”-ing Equine Clones’ Registration: Establishing Procompetitive Benefits to Counter the Anticompetitive Argument Against American Quarter Horse Association’s Ban on Clones
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2014-07)This Note examines Abraham and Veneklasen Joint Venture v. American Quarter Horse Association, in which a United States district court ruled that the American Quarter Horse Association’s rule banning clones of registered ... -
Witness Protections in Illinois Civil Actions
(2012)This article examines the laws guiding witnesses at depositions, hearings, and trials in civil actions in Illinois circuit courts. Such laws encompass norms for judicial limits ahead of any scheduled depositions or ... -
Writing Affects the Brain Network of Reading in Chinese: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
(2013)We examined the hypothesis that learning to write Chinese characters influences the brain’s reading network for characters. Students from a college Chinese class learned 30 characters in a character-writing condition and ...
